Democrats who backed the pipeline

[cal04]

A Senate bill aimed at approving the Keystone XL pipeline stalled Tuesday, dealing a blow to Sen. Mary L. Landrieu’s tough re-election bid.

Republican leaders plan to bring the pipeline legislation back up next year, when GOP reinforcements appear certain to bring it over the line and to President Barack Obama’s desk.

The 59-41 vote fell just one vote short of overcoming a filibuster led by Democrats.

In addition to Landrieu, Democrats who backed the pipeline included Sens. Mark Begich of Alaska, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Thomas R. Carper of Delaware, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Manchin III of West Virginia, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, Jon Tester of Montana, John Walsh of Montana and Mark Warner of Virginia.

http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/keystone-xl-pipeline-stalls-in-senate-vote/?dcz=

YEAs ---59
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagan (D-NC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lee (R-UT)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Pryor (D-AR)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Walsh (D-MT)
Warner (D-VA)
Wicker (R-MS)
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=113&session=2&vote=00280

[femmocrat]

1. I am disappointed in Casey.

[Tree-Hugger]

4. Same (nt)

[ebbie15644]

13. Didn't surprise me that he voted for it.

[femmocrat]

16. I know. He has supported it in the past.

He thinks it will "create jobs". I sent him an email expressing my disapproval.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/capitolinq/Casey-splits-with-Dems-supports-Keystone-XL.html

[RiverLover]

31. That's awesome that you wrote him!!

[still_one]

33. it will for 2 years, then only 50 permanent jobs will be left. Unfortunately, even if the pipeline

not pass Canada will still continue to extract the oil from the tar, in ways that hurt the environment, and will use other transport mechanisms to ship the oil.

If they have the pipeline, the companies do not have to pay any charges for the land it passes through, and it is not clear if there is an accident on the pipeline who is responsible for the damages.

Don't the states that the pipeline is going through have no issues with it?

[livetohike]

38. Same here. I didn't call his office because I thought

he would vote No. I won't make that mistake again .

[RiverLover]

2. The Third Wayers are outed. Thanks for posting~

[polichick]

3. Corporate whores, one and all.

[scarletwoman]

8. Liars, one and all.

The whole schtick about "jobs and energy independence" is totally bogus. And they should damn well know it.

[bigwillq]

5. Thanks for posting the list.

K and R

[Ykcutnek]

6. 41 real Democrats in the Senate. Sigh. nt

[foo_bar]

40. that's not how the senate works

If I watched CNN and House of Cards correctly, this means leadership killed the bill, and 15 dems were let off the hook to bring home some red meat. I mean c'mon, Landrieu would be Warren if she lived in MA, and vice versa, so it's more of a branding exercise that targets specific demo-geographical niches. I mean I'll still choose Coke over Pepsi every time, for the superior advertisements alone, but I'm realistic about the extent to which Coca-Cola is personally invested in my dental health.

[Cali_Democrat]

7. Those are the most conservative Dems in the Senate

No surprises.

[RiverLover]

9. Sherrod Brown(D-Oh) voted AGAINST the pipeline.

He's one of the few true Democrats left. He's make a GREAT president too...Just sayin!

[Thinkingabout]

10. Well, you get your trophy, Cassidy sponsored the bill in the House, he is a radical RW TP republican

who will probably replace Landrieu in the Senate, enjoy.

[2naSalit]

12. It's not like

he's going to be any worse than Ms. Piggy. I don't see much difference between either of those two.

[Thinkingabout]

17. She has never been in the TP gang, Cassidy is joing his best friend Ted Cruz.

[2naSalit]

20. She doesn't care about the

environment any more than the toiletpaper crowd. She's an oil-shill and has made no effort to sing any other song so I can't imagine she was any better than the incoming shill will be behind her. At least the newbie will be honest about his contempt for all life on the planet.

[Thinkingabout]

22. Think he is concerned about Democrat issues?

[2naSalit]

24. More to the point

IMHO, I don't think she is either.

[Thinkingabout]

25. You missed, she has been a long time champion of Civil Rights and in Louisiana they don't have

many who fights for this one issue, Cassidy will never.

[RiverLover]

27. What Civil Rights problems has she solved or improved on? ~nt

[Thinkingabout]

39. If you researched her her record and the record of her family in Louisiana and you would know.

[RiverLover]

41. Links please

[Thinkingabout]

43. I don't have a link to my life history and knowledge.

[RiverLover]

14. She wants the XL, so what exactly is the difference here? ~nt

[Thinkingabout]

19. Her replacement will be the sponsor of the bill which passed the House, she has been a

champion of Civil Rights in Louisiana, this will suffer.

[2naSalit]

11. Just as I expected...

the two DINOs from MT are on that list of miscreants.

If I thought I could win the popularity contest, I'd run for the Senate myself in my state.

[HereSince1628]

15. But isn't mining also important in Montana?

I mostly recognized the votes to be out of states where mining or drilling are significant to the economy or history

[2naSalit]

18. It is to

a point. The problem being that what is mined here is not sustainable or environmentally friendly... coal and Baaken oil. We have lots of wind hre and sufficient sunshine, even in winter, to be a large player in renewables. We had subsidies for implementing such power sources but I think they went away in the past couple years.

[HereSince1628]

29. I don't know any mined resource that is sustainable or environmentally friendly

Resources generally divide into fund and flow type.

Fund resources sit in large deposits which over time are consumed

Flow resources like sunlight, wind and rain typically aren't considered in terms of reservoirs but rather as amounts available over time. Historically such things weren't much thought about as sustainable. But water reservoirs that make constant production of hydroelectric can be depleted,

Living resources, such as fish stocks and forests represent a middle ground. They exist as large pools but with inputs and outputs. So long as the inputs equal or exceed the outputs, the pool is sustainable.

I don't know of many mines that are environmentally friendly. Typically mining involves digging into a deposit. Disturbing the earth that's in the way of collecting the target material makes various, sometimes toxic minerals and sediments available to movement by water which leads to migration of pollutants.

[2naSalit]

30. All of the above and

the sensitive environmental material removed by mining and habitat for endagered or should be listed as endangered species... oh yeah, and clean water!!

Yeah, those things are more important than digging up pristine wild lands for profits for the few.

We need actually think more about what we need to do to change our way of destroying our habitat, along with that of all the other living beings in the biosphere, and I don't care if people have to change the way they do things. I've made that change and guess what, it didn't kill me.

I think most people, given a choice of doing something to make their lives better, including reviewing their values set, rather than offering only a position of complacency and fatalism.

There are choices but they need to be recognized and acted upon.

Most of the people in the mining towns re pretty miserable on many fronts. I have yet to see one in any portion of the country where life is good for those who live in or around them.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

21. And the oil-soaked corporate DINOs reveal themselves, standing stark naked before the platform! nt

[Fred Sanders]

32. Yep. Each and every one soaked in petro cash for their campaigns, it is thoroughly disgusting.

[PAProgressive28]

23. Casey...

[oldtime dfl_er]

26. Throw the bums out

We can do better.

[bunnies]

35. You have an HRC avatar.

Just sayin.

[Le Taz Hot]

37. Cool.

More 5-state strategy.

[TBF]

34. K&R for transparency. nt

[spanone]

36. ugh

[Owl]

42. Those D's stand for Dumbo's. (I deleted a better word...)

[IronLionZion]

44. Well we won't have to worry about some of these Dems real soon

[WillyT]

45. Yep... Self Cleansing Reality

[bigwillq]

46. Thank goodness (nt)