Meant to take crude pulled from the tar sands of western kind and pipe it through the United States through the gulf of mexico. Back to the debate is joined crude oil was much more expensive, and they were bringing it out of canadian canada by rail. Today crude is cheap, oil is plentiful, and the senate is controlled by republicans. In a 6332 vote the senate decided to move forward in the debate of the keystone xl pipeline president obama has promised to veto the pipeline if the bill lands on his desk. It needs to 67 votes to override the president ial veto. Were asking the president to work with us, and the gridlock and get this project moving. Reporter the house of representatives also voted in favor of ski stone. As a new member of congress im proud in our first week we passed bipartisan legislation. The approvement of the Keystone Pipeline is will bring jobs. Were off to a strong start. Reporter the president and rankers are all opponents of the 1200mile pipeline planned. Senator B
Intensifies in the east of the country. Well begin with more breaking news out of libya where the self declared government in tripoli says it will not attend u. N. Backed talks in geneva next week but is willing to negotiate if those talks are moved to libya. The rival eelected government has declared a ceasefire while the tripoli based government declared one friday. In the last three months, heavy fighting between militias has killed 600 people. We are joined now from london. When we last spoke to you in the last hour, we talked about the problems that have beset libya right now. I suppose this is a testament to those problems when we hear that one of the selfdeclared ghosts said it is not going to take part in the talks if theyre in geneva. What do you make of that . On the one hand, yes this is the g. N. C. Attempt to go reject and scuttle the geneva talks yet on the other hand, its more complex than youre news story presented, because the g. N. C. Is not the self declared governme