This victory shows that no one, not even President Trump, is above the law, offshore drilling and the associated threat of devastating oil spills puts coastal economies and ways of life at risk while worsening the consequences of climate change. President Trump wanted to erase all the environmental progress we've made, but we fought back and we won.

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We think the stakes are so high, there is so much at stake, we need to get in now to make sure Hillary wins, that is why we are here. We have got to win.

This veto, along with the president’s increasing public skepticism about Keystone XL ... makes us more confident than ever that (the) president will reject the permit itself once and for all.

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She has already been asked about that. That is not her decision right now, you heard her praise President Obama many, many times for his leadership on climate change and leaving a legacy. That is a decision left to him and the current secretary of state. That is where it should be.

There is nothing surprising about that at all, many of our best friends in the Senate have done similar things. ... It is just what people do.