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Senate budget plan embraces Keystone XL approval
2013-03-23 01:53:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Senate easily passed on Friday a symbolic measure approving the Canada to Texas Keystone XL oil pipeline, a move backers said showed strong support for a bill that would give Congress power to green light the project later in the year. The amendment to the budget plan, sponsored by Senator John Hoeven, a Republican from North Dakota, passed 62 to 37. It was symbolic because the budget is a blueprint that will not become law. But the measure was selected out of hundreds of others for a vote...
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