article_snippet: The US Senate failed Wednesday to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill approving construction of the pipeline.
article_snippet: It's expected to be the first of many confrontations between the Republican-controlled Congress and the White House this year over energy policy.
article_snippet: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, seen in the Capitol on Feb. 23, couldn't muster enough votes to override President Obama's Keystone XL veto .
article_snippet: NOT TODAY: President Obama signed the Homeland Security Department's budget into law on Wednesday, but has no intention of signing a Keystone construction bill .
article_snippet: Already, the White House has issued more than a dozen veto threats on legislation favored by Republican lawmakers.
article_snippet: Obama has repeatedly resisted Last Congress attempts to force Obama hand.
article_snippet: Obama veto of their Keystone bill, the third of Obama presidency, said that their Keystone bill circumvented longstanding and proven processes for determining whether cross-border pipelines serve the national interest and cuts short consideration of the national interest effects.
highlights_snippet: Obama's first veto this year killed approval of the Canada-to-Texas oil pipe .
  
highlights_snippet: Two-thirds, or 67 senators, are needed to overturn a veto .
  