Less than 200 votes. Also, a bill sponsored by the republican over the keystone to outline will be in the house this week. To the keystone xl pipeline and specifically what congress should do about it, we want to get your thoughts on if congress should approve passage and building of the Keystone Pipeline. If you support the measure if you oppose the measure want to make your thoughts on congress and how they should act on keystone, on , you can contact us on twitter, facebook or email. Mikeng us on the phone, lillis on the hill. Good morning. Can you give us a little background on the scheduled votes on keystone and how this happens . Guest sure, obama was trying to delay without having to deal with it and hoping to get out of office. No unanticipated this would foren in the lame duck something to the louisiana race was going to be close. But when republicans came back and said, hey, lets vote on this one more time and this is not the first time theyve voted on it. Theyve done this a number of time, just pressing the issues. They said, we cannot let landrieu go back over the holidays and renegades this guy who just passed this guy who just passed the thing that is very popular in the state. Harry reid and the democrats said, well, we can match that. The republicans with cassidy are going to pass it, then we can bring it up under landrieus name. Both will be able to go back and say they sponsored legislation and were successful getting it onto the floor. Headache fore a barack obama, who will decide have you will have to decide what to do with it. When is the senate supposed to act on it . Guest on it . Tost the house is supposed deal with it by the end of the week. I have a today calendar did on the set just the senate vote just yet. Host and to be clear, if it does pass and its to the presents desk the president s desk, has he indicated what he will do . Guest he has not. He has said he soon waiting on a number of state department reviews. The state department has delayed its first of they have said they are still waiting to see how its going to impact the environment and the economy. He keeps saying they dont have a verdict just yet. That is an argument that republicans reject out of hand, of course. And they said this has been reviewed ad nauseam and how many more reviews do we need before Going Forward you come going force barack will obamas hand. No indication yet what he will do. Host that is mike lillis talking about the keystone xl pipeline. We also ask you to talk about leadership in the senate and house and what is inspected to take place today. Can we start in the house . And events me . E what will the events at the outcome be . You will not see too many familiar faces back in the leadership in either party. Met last republicans night and their candidates made a pitch. I say candidates, because but that is tongueincheek. There is not a lot of elections. No one is really being challenged. Spiegel john berry Speaker John Boehner will come back. Cathynference chair Mcmorris Rodgers are all running unchallenged. Elections are happening today. On the democratic side, same thing. Nancy pelosi, and the top leaders on the democratic side all running unopposed. Are on tuesday. It is possible that a challenger could emerge, but if one does, its not expected to be any kind of real challenge. It will just be a symbolic thing. , on the houselis said, there are also a couple of people campaigning to be on the study committee. Who is it and what is it and whos vying for the position . Guest i dont follow that closely at all, so i dont whos running for that right now. We do have the policy committee can i set for you are talking about. James lankford went to the histe and following in footsteps, candidates have emerged. Luke messer, brock would all, tom reed. But in terms of the Republican Study Committee study committee, i dont know the answer. Next breakrms of the congress has to take a moment will see happen in both bodies, besides keystone which you talked about . Guest we have a Defense Authorization bill, Government Spending bill that has to be done by december 11. Breaksackage of tax called tax extenders. Those are the things that will happen. But because of the election and the powershift, new will see republicans take control of the senate. Republicans want to do as little as possible this year while they are still in the minority and push the chopper fights to next year when they have more control and more seats in the house. The tougher fights to next year when they have more control and more seats in the house. Democrats want to do it they can while they have control. Harry reid is pushing to a lot of nominations. Than 100 50re administrative nominations sitting out there waiting for set a action. They want to get through as many of those as possible. Democrats will rush, republicans will stall. How much will get done, we are not sure. The keystone is a wildcard as well. That could delay things as well. Mike lillis, thank you for your time. Keystonee piece the get yourne, we want to thoughts on if congress should pass it. We have divided the lines on opposed. Nd tell us why. The numbers are on the screen. The new star out of the out of louisiana has the keystone vote as one of its lead stories. You can find that in the louisiana paper. Also if you go to the National Post newspaper, the canadian newspaper, they also make keystone except pipeline of course, it deals directly with them a lead story. On whetherr thoughts you support or oppose it. Danny from West Virginia says he opposes it. Tell us why. Caller first of all, im a canadian and i flipped in West Virginia for a number of years. I work in the i have lived in West Virginia forever of years. Fromk in the Energy Sector several aspects. The Business Aspect is owned by come brothers by the Koch Brothers. It will be moving through the pipeline down to oklahoma, louisiana area where we would be processing at Koch Brothers refineries and then it will be shipped offshore. The result will be Higher Oil Prices in the u. S. Will really benefit. When they tell you it will be lower prices in the u. S. , thats not true. From the environmental side, there is no benefit to the American People. But it does put the Ogallala Aquifer at great risk. They will leaks in the pipeline. It is a huge pipeline. My other my brother owns a company that builds pipelines. And they always leak. For those who support it, this is ralph in battle creek, michigan. Hello. Guy,r i agree with the what he said, the previous color. Er. Call if they do approve it, we ought to have a tax on all that gant gunk. Gunk. E it really is it is tar. It is externally dirty. They have to put in toxic chemicals to make it flow. They have to heat it and put it under high pressure. It is likely that spills and ruptures are more likely. If were going to take this huge risk and have this tar running through the country all the way i dont know why they couldnt refine that up in canada. Were going to approve this Keystone Pipeline, there should be a carbon tax. York on theter, new opposed pipeline. Not seeing the Keystone Pipeline. Im seeing the next berlin wall coming right through. Im seeing checkpoint charlie wretch to the mississippi river. If you were going to have a massive pipeline coming through america, you are going to have to have bridges. Its the perfect checkpoint wall where this country is going right now. If you want energy independence, up here in new york state well of these farms and small towns are dying, thanks to a lot of commercial invest in. Tell me you cannot figure out a garbage a carburetor that burns oil more efficiently. Host Mary Landrieu talked about the Keystone Pipeline, doing that and the lameduck congress. Here are some of her statement from yesterday. [video clip] i believe it is time to act. I believe we should take the new majority leader at his word and stop blocking legislation that is probably supported by the American Public, and has been for quite some time. Yes to neway Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell. The time to start is now. The a supporter of keystone effort from stanford, connecticut. This is bad. Hello. Caller good morning, thank you for cspan. I support the pipeline. The main reason this is not going through, Warren Buffett, president obamas good friend, owns the railroad that ships the oil. And he also owns the rails. He owns the cars and the rails. And he doesnt want to give up that money. He is good friends with the president. Its just not going to happen. From ohio, also a supporter. Caller i support the pipeline. Host why is that . The thingsause all they say it will do, reduce the prices, create jobs, i believe that is true. Wouldnth the people flood your lines on all lines and say they agree with something when they really dont. If these people are so environmentally concerned, we should have is a water network. Would answer the Climate Control problems with respect to this country. Host we had a previous viewer who talked about the environmental concerns, the type and leaking, that kind of thing. Do you have those concerns as well . Caller no, this is the best type that has ever been made. Will they sometimes be accidents . Yes, but they will be tracked back to the way something was done. But despite is amazing. Piperegard to but this is amazing. With regard to the prices and it being sold out of the country, that is absolutely true. The byproduct of refining the oil is kerosene. And we dont use kerosene in this country, so it will be even better because we were exported and we will have energy independence. Host harvey, from belmont michigan, good morning. Caller are you talking to me echo to me . Host yes, you are on. Caller no one has talked about pet coke. The kochled up by brothers and had to be removed. It is a byproduct that is similar to coal. It burns like coal, but its much dirtier. It is sold off to the electric companies locally. Price, and they burn it. So we get more pollution. Im in michigan and we have oil river thatlamazoo was bringing the sludge from canada. It was three or four years ago. The stuff is still there. It is impossible to clean up. Export theing to oil. Its going to dirty the air. Its going to do it in the water. Its going to dirty the water. And the only reason is to get it to the refineries in the deep south. I think thats about it. Couple of spinoff stories in the paper this morning about the announcement made by the president with china when it comes to greenhouse gases. The wall street journal says this that is in the wall street journal this morning. Also, if you can turn to the the New York Times you can look at henry thousand and John Schwartz saying this policy experts said that building up Nuclear Power had been in the works for a long time. The keystone xl pipeline is the topic. The house is scheduled to take votes on it. We are asking you what you should do about it. We have divided the lines between those who support and oppose the effort. The numbers are on the screen. We will hear from paul in rhode island, a supporter. Hello, paul. Caller good morning. This is surrounded by the biggest pack of lies ive ever heard. Sands will the tar cost 45 more to refine it was a bit scud to go from the middle of canada in a heated will cost 25 more to refine it. It has got to go from the middle of canada in a heated pipe. We dont have the of restructured to store it and move it around the country. We are awash in oil. Company, inscanada heard an engineer say it is not 25,000 jobs, but 2900. When the thing is built, it will take about 100 people to maintain. So there is another lie. Sands that are left after the refining project cannot be used. It is highly toxic stand that cannot be used for anything. Sand thattoxic cannot be used for anything close of its got to be stored. And canada is not going to build a pipeline across the Canadian Rockies for china. That is a myth. Host richmond, virginia, and opposer, this is amy. I heard someone call in a just a minute ago about the reason the Keystone Pipeline is becauseg through, Warren Buffett owns the trains. I have no idea of that is true or not, but i do know last i heard the reason it hasnt gone through is because of a lawsuit where a town i who to come i guess an oil company. I would somebody would bring that up. But congress has nothing to do with whites not going through right now as far as i know. Its because of a lawsuit in nebraska. The congressas itself, what do you want to see you do on the issue . Caller i oppose it, so of course i dont want to see go through. That man just before me talked about how they tout all of these jobs that go through. That is not true. I agree with him, there are so many lies surrounding this topic. People need to research. Host why do you think its not true when it comes to the jobs . Caller just according to what ive read and researched. Reliable, liable sources. A lot of people get their information from unreliable sources, like fox news, for instance. And they just say with a year, without researching other news sources that are more reliable. Say what they hear, without researching other news sources that are more reliable. Host hello, matt. Support it for several reasons. First of all, economically, the price of oil is a matter of supply and demand. If you increase the supply, you lower the price. The second one, strategically its a lot easier to move oil in a pipeline across the United States than it is to move oil in a tanker across the world. Its also a great deal safer. As weve seen demonstrated repeatedly over the last 30 years. In addition, the difficulties and hazards of pipe are exaggerated. Is becausei say that the country is now and has been for the majority of the last crisscrossed with pipelines. There have been no catastrophic problems with moving oil through a pipe. It is well known. The engineering is simple and straightforward. ,ts a matter of craftsmanship codes, and inspections of the codes. It is all able to be handled. From san antonio, texas, this is the need a, go ahead. Caller i dont see why anyone would support despite find being built. Why would anyone support a foreign country being able to use Eminent Domain to take farm to take land away from american natives and farmers and ranchers . That is what is happening. Host do you think there are any benefits other than the Eminent Domain issues . Dont see any advantage for the United States other than for the canadian Oil Companies. That oil will be going to the open market. Ive read studies that show it will raise gas prices. Its too much of a risk to our water supply. Its taking away land from people. Dont have a lot of power, because there are not allowed not a lot of them. I just cant believe anyone would support a foreign country coming into this country and using Eminent Domain to take away american ranchers and farmers land. Even as we are many days away from election day, there are some races being considered, such as arizona Second District now going to a recount. Showinal ballot counts that a recount will be needed. The final ballots were counted wednesday evening after the than 100arified less provisional ballots and about 208 other ballots. It now goes to an automatic recount. Afterl take place december 1. Ms. Barber one special election mr. Barber won the special election to replace gabrielle giffords. , what do yougo think about the Congress Taking up these votes . Caller a followup to what the lady just said about farmland recep i do agree, but i also agree congress should also about farmland. I do agree, but i also agree congress should also the with the neutrality ways. The neutrality where ways makes oil cheaper and makes it greener. Host sharon from lacey bill, pennsylvania. Hello, im very angry with the democrats. Im angry with the ignorance of the American Public and also with the media for not repeating the real facts. The canadian owners of the oil testified before congress that this oil will be sold to china and india. I dont understand how that is supposed to give us energy independence. And the other thing is, i looked at the independent studies and i the section of the state Department Report about jobs and the economy. Uss pipeline will only give 20 toary jobs followed by 30 2230 permanent jobs. Followed by 20 to 30 permanent jobs. Louisiana, this is make, a supporter. Caller how are you doing . Host fine, thank you. Why do you support it . Caller im from louisiana and thats what we do down here, we drill for oil. Weve got pipelines all over this country and theres never been one pipeline its ever leaked into an aquifer anywhere. People need to do research. The left doesnt oppose this want the oildont because its killing the planet. It aint got nothing to do with that. This pipeline,ed george soros, obamas buddy, a big supporter, without and bought half of a rail line. And he got all of the contracts to run down the railways. In the last couple of years, theyve already had a few Railway Accidents where it all build. Spilled. But when it all spilled on the ground, you dont hear about it from the left because its george soros and they are not going to say anything about him. That is my comment. Leave, what dou you think about this runoff vote between Mary Landrieu