article_snippet: At best, then, the GOP would have needed four more Democratic converts to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill approving construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline and send President Barack Obama's veto of a bill approving construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline to the White House for the White House own attempt.
article_snippet: The same exact group of nine joined together earlier this year to give Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell enough votes to pass a Keystone construction bill, dubbed 'S. 1' because a Keystone construction bill was the Senate's first order of business in January.
article_snippet: Proponents of the Keystone bill have said since Proponents of the Keystone bill introduction that Proponents of the Keystone bill didn't have the two-thirds of the Senate vote needed to override Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer's veto.
article_snippet: Proponents of the Keystone bill've already been discussing other way to force the pipeline's approval, either by attaching the pipeline's approval onto must-pass spending bills or other, broader, energy legislation. '
article_snippet: If we don't win the battle today, we will win the war because we will find another bill to attach the pipeline to,' said North Dakota GOP Sen. John Hoeven, the chief sponsor of the Keystone bill, before the vote.
article_snippet: Democrat Heidi Heitkamp, the state's other senator, said afterward that 'more work remains to gather additional support for this project.'
article_snippet: Last Congress I successfully recruited ten Democrats to support Keystone,' she said, 'and I’m not one to back down from a fight.'
article_snippet: McConnell pleaded with Democrats for more support of the bill, which McConnell said advanced the president's own priorities. '
article_snippet: If you're interested in jobs and infrastructure and saving your party from an extreme mistake, then join us,' McConnell said. '
article_snippet: Vote with us to override a partisan veto and help the president pursue priorities the president's advocated in the past.'
article_snippet: Republicans signed Republicans Keystone bill on Feb. 13 and sent their Keystone bill to the White House, but their Keystone bill came back to Republicans with Obama's 'veto' signature .
highlights_snippet: Republicans say Republicans'll attach the Keystone language to a 'must-pass' bill later on, vowing the project is not dead .