with positions that might come back to bite them in the next election. so far however, none of that has panned out. today republicans are one plausible shot that is built to fast tract the keystone pipeline reached an inevitable conclusion. since barack obama is not running for reelection the political cost of said veto appears to be nothing. republicans other big political gambit has been to repudiate his executive action protecting millions of people from deportation deportation. the way they would do that is attaching the measure to a must pass bill funding the department of homeland security. it has been a game of chicken with republicans threatening to shut down dhs unless they allow the provision to go through. now in the final stretch, senate