GOP Congress moves veto-bait bills on health care, pipeline
Source: AP-Excite
By ALAN FRAM
WASHINGTON (AP) — In command and ready for a fight, a defiant Republican-led Congress ignored two White House veto threats and advanced bills Thursday curbing President Barack Obama's cherished health care overhaul and forcing construction on a proposed oil pipeline. The top House Democrat predicted her party would uphold both of Obama's vetoes.
On the new Congress' third day of work, a Senate committee approved a measure dismantling Obama's ability to block the Keystone XL oil pipeline, a project that has become a flashpoint pitting the GOP's jobs agenda against Democrats' environmental concerns. Full Senate passage seemed likely as soon as next week, while the House was poised to approve its version Friday.
Across the Capitol, the House neared passage of legislation narrowing the definition of full-time workers who must be offered employer-provided health care from those working 30 hours weekly to a 40-hour minimum.
On both bills, GOP leaders would face uphill fights mustering the two-thirds House and Senate majority votes they would need to override Obama vetoes. But both measures had some support from Democrats, and Republicans could use them to portray themselves as championing bipartisan legislation, only to be thwarted by Obama and his Democratic congressional allies.
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President Barack Obama speaks at Ford Michigan Assembly Plant, Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2015, in Wayne, Mich., about the resurgent American automotive and manufacturing sector. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Who are the democrats that are supporting these measures it was not reported
