Keystone Pipeline and Oil Exports

Open Email to Texas Representative Michael McCaul:

Dear Representative McCaul,
I have read your latest newsletter.
You join most Republicans in the House passage of installing the Keystone oil pipeline. In your discussion, you have assumed that Pres. Obama will veto such bill if passed also by the Senate and gets to him for signing. On that assumption, you suggested Pres. Obama will have to explain to the American public why he is vetoing the bill. In fact, he does not need to explain.
You and other Republicans should only be pursuing this pipeline issue if you feel you have enough votes to override the two thirds requirement for presidential veto. If not, you should go on with something else of value to the Republicans and the American people, wherein Pres. Obama will prove or you will be able to override his veto.
Your introduction of the Crude Oil Export Act, which ends 1970s era restrictions on the free trade of American crude oil is laudable, but also falls into the same category. Unless you think Pres. Obama will not veto the legislation, or you will be able to obtain a two-thirds majority to override such veto, you are spinning your wheels.