GOP hopes to force Obama's hand on Keystone

It took just a few hours for the new Republican-controlled Congress to elicit its first veto threat from President Obama, dashing initial hopes for bipartisanship and cementing the status of the Keystone XL pipeline as Washington's reigning political football.

To be sure, the president's opposition to a bill approving the project is hardly surprising given his past statements. But the decision to issue a formal veto threat this week underscores the raw politics that surround Keystone after six years of regulatory limbo.

The White House would only hint at a veto back in November, when the measure fell just one vote short of approval in the Democratic-led Senate as former Sen. Mary Landrieu eyed it as a possible political lifeline. Months later, the same Democratic leadership that allowed a vote on the Landrieu bill derailed a planned Senate Energy Committee hearing on the subject. More

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