WASHINGTON (KFGO-AM) North Dakota's lone U.S. Representative has voted to approve a bipartisan bill to construct the Keystone XL oil pipeline.
Republican Representative Kevin Cramer was one of the 270 representatives who voted Wednesday in favor of sending the bill to President Barack Obama's desk. The president has said he will veto any Keystone legislation that comes to him.
The pipeline proposed by TransCanada Corp. would transport Canadian oil through Montana and South Dakota to Nebraska, where it would connect with existing pipelines to carry the oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
Cramer says the president has asked for bipartisan legislation and says the Keystone bill is just that.
U.S. Sens. Heidi Heitkamp and Senator John Hoeven both voted for the bill when it passed in the Senate in January.