Senate Dems to float provisions on Keystone XL bill

Published January 5, 2015 9:37am ET



Senate Democrats will attempt to attach provisions on clean energy and oil exports to legislation authorizing construction of the Keystone XL pipeline when the upper chamber begins debating the bill this week, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday.

The measures are unlikely to garner enough support in the GOP-held Senate, much as they’ve failed on Keystone XL bills in previous years in the Republican House. But Schumer said that the amendments his caucus plans to offer will make the legislation “more of a jobs bill,” as he downplayed the 35 permanent jobs the State Department said that TransCanada Corp.’s project would create.

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