congress passed before christmas. they wanted to fight more on immigration and funding obama care. once it was resolved boehner laid out his vision for the new congress. we ll begin our work on this common ground taking enough measures to restore the hours of middle class workers and help small businesses hire more of our veterans. you can expect much of the early focus to be on passing the keystone xl pipeline project which has been much studied. also some focus to be on repealing the last popular parts of obama care, testing to see how often president obama intends to use his veto pen. mike on capitol hill thang thank you so much. today s vote for speaker did disappoint me for a number of reasons. for starters, the elected representatives, they didn t listen to you the american people. according to a brand new poll
congress. three conservative congressmen challenged him daniel web sister with 12 votes, lou louie gohmert and ted yoho. people are calling us today they ve been calling us since this morning saying we re going to support somebody other than mr. boehner. you ll see the numbers grow. conservative critics rick boehner who are accepting the bipartisan bicameral package congress passed before christmas. they wanted to fight more on immigration and funding obama care. once it was resolved boehner laid out his vision for the new congress. we ll begin our work on this common ground taking enough measures to restore the hours of middle class workers and help small businesses hire more of our veterans. you can expect much of the early focus to be on passing the keystone xl pipeline project which has been much studied.
this congress right now. so, i m very pleased with that, and it s going to be i think, very active. i think it will be a very energetic process that we go through. everyone s excited about getting down to business and getting something accomplished but having open access and an open process. reporter: supporters of the keystone xl pipeline project believe they have the votes in both the house and the senate, but it s not over until they actually vote, chuck. you mentioned the senate over there. some of the very same faces with brand-new titles. reporter: well, that s right. harry weed, whoreid anow the minority leader, the democratic leader, but of the minority party, and mitch mcconnell is the new majority leader. the new republican majority accepted its new responsibility. we recognize the enormity of the task before us. we know a lot of hard work awaits awaits. we know many important opportunities await as well. the american people need for us to work together to solve pro
support the planet and the president of the united states by voting no on the keystone xl pipeline. there are absolutes here. if that project goes through and there is a disaster over the aquifer, remember folks, it s irreversible damage. they cannot clean it up. they won t be able to do it. they don t have the technology for that. it is an unnecessary risk that this country does not have to take. i ask the question where are the dissenting voices? let us know what you think. tonight s question do you think the pipeline has any merit? text your vote. leave a comment on our blog we ll bring you the results later on in the show. let me bring in senator ben cardin of maryland. good to have you with us tonight. it s always good to be on your show ed. where do you stand on this? well i m opposed to the pipeline. as you point out, this is oil
america to be exported to other countries from texas? that makes no sense at all in terms of american working people s interests. so we re going to say that the oil should stay here. finally we re going to introduce an amendment for add clean energy jobs. if you do things for wind an solar energy you create tens of thousands more jobs using clean energy. kind of good but not good enough. no democrat as i see it should fall for these amendments. green energy investment should not be held hostage by the keystone xl pipeline. whatever advancement in green energy would be wiped out by this project. a study from nature climate changes seg keystone would create four times more greenhouse gases, and the state department, well the consultants who did that go ask them where they used to work. even with the amendments schumer admitted he s urging the president to vote no on