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Keystone XL Pipeline Bill Stalls in Senate

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simoom11/18/2014 11:11:08 pm PST

The surveillance reform bill also was filibustered. Perhaps this will finally puncture the libertarian & liberal fantasy that there’s a bipartisan coalition interested in measured reform.

Here’s the cloture vote breakdown:

govtrack.us

The two independents voted Yea, as did all Dems save Bill Nelson. Four Republicans also voted Yea: Lisa Murkowski, Dean Heller, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz.

The usual suspects naturally were unhappy. As the vote neared, GG started out attacking his and Snowden’s detractors:

(Once again he fails to acknowledge that many that see him as a shoddy advocacy “journalist” and Snowden as a criminal have zero issue with reform efforts.)

Greenwald then became increasingly irritated with the floor debate:

I’m looking forward to seeing how Conor Friedersdorf spins this, since his hero Sen. Paul voted against too. Paul gave a reason that he felt the legislation didn’t go far enough, but it’s hard to see how he could possibly think the incoming Congress would bring a result more to his (claimed) liking.