ChesusRice
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McConnell’s early legislative agenda remains unclear, considering he has declined to say publicly what will follow his Keystone initiative.
However, Illinois GOP Sen. Mark Kirk told Fox News on Sunday that McConnell has indicted “the second big vote” will be on more sanctions on Iran for failing to reach a deal with the United States and other Western nations on slowing its nuclear-enrichment program toward the apparent pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
“So I would expect that coming up,” Kirk said.
Completing the pipeline -- which would deliver crude oil from Canada and the American heartland to Gulf Coast refineries -- has for Republicans become as much a symbolic victory as a win for their political agenda of increasing jobs and domestic energy.
The refined oil would go the international market, not the United States, and the number of long-term, full-time jobs the project would create remains in dispute.
Keystone legislation languished under outgoing Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, until the waning days of the last Congress when he called a vote on the bill in a final attempt to help Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu get re-elected.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/31/in-control-congress-gop-looks-for-early-win-on-keystone-then-immigration-jobs/
However, Illinois GOP Sen. Mark Kirk told Fox News on Sunday that McConnell has indicted “the second big vote” will be on more sanctions on Iran for failing to reach a deal with the United States and other Western nations on slowing its nuclear-enrichment program toward the apparent pursuit of a nuclear weapon.
“So I would expect that coming up,” Kirk said.
Completing the pipeline -- which would deliver crude oil from Canada and the American heartland to Gulf Coast refineries -- has for Republicans become as much a symbolic victory as a win for their political agenda of increasing jobs and domestic energy.
The refined oil would go the international market, not the United States, and the number of long-term, full-time jobs the project would create remains in dispute.
Keystone legislation languished under outgoing Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid, until the waning days of the last Congress when he called a vote on the bill in a final attempt to help Louisiana Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu get re-elected.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/12/31/in-control-congress-gop-looks-for-early-win-on-keystone-then-immigration-jobs/