With members who receive large financial backing from oil and gas interests playing the dominant role, the House of Representatives passed a bill on Wednesday evening which would force the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. Having already been approved by the Senate, the passage sets up a promised veto of the measure from President Obama as it heads to his desk.

In a 270-152 vote, which fell largely along party lines, the Republican-controlled House easily passed the measure. Twenty-nine Democrats joined with Republicans in favor of the bill.

The Senate passed same the bill by a 62-36 margin last month. Neither the House nor the Senate appears to have enough votes to override a presidential veto.

Sara Shor, a campaigner with 350.org, a group vocally opposed to the tar sands pipeline project known as KLX, described the ploy by Republicans and some Democrats in Congress to force its approval as a "charade" and said her group fully expects Obame to keep his pledge to veto the legislation. Obama now has ten days to veto or approve the legislation.

However, Shor added, "Once he vetoes this bill, the pipeline won't be stopped, so we hope he will then use his power to reject the pipeline outright."

Valerie Love, from the Center for Biological Diversity, echoed those sentiments. "Now that this political theater is over in Congress, it’s time for President Obama to finally do what’s right for people, wildlife and the climate: reject Keystone XL once and for all," Love said. "There’s been a massive swell of opposition to Keystone XL from people coast to coast who understand the devastation of Keystone XL and projects like it. It’s time to start tackling the climate crisis and get us off our fossil fuel addiction. Rejecting Keystone XL is the right place to start."

According to the Maplight Foundation, which tracks financial contributions to congressional campaigns, those members of the House who receive large backing from the oil and gas industries were much more likely to vote in favor of the Keystone XL approval than those who receive less. As Maplight's analysis shows:

The oil and gas industry gave, on average, 13 times more money to representatives voting ‘YES’ ($45,218) on S. 1 compared to representatives voting 'NO' ($3,549).

The oil and gas industry gave, on average, 5.3 times more money to Democratic representatives voting ‘YES’ ($18,141) on S.1 compared to Democratic representatives voting ‘NO’ ($3,444).

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As Kyle Ash of Greenpeace told the Inter Press News service following Wednesday's vote, "Another climate denier-controlled House vote in favour of oil isn’t a surprise, and the Democrats who voted with them of course are oil-funded politicians too."

The full roll call of the House vote follows:

---- YEAS 270 ---

Abraham

Aderholt

Allen

Amodei

Ashford

Babin

Barletta

Barr

Barton

Benishek

Bilirakis

Bishop (GA)

Bishop (MI)

Bishop (UT)

Black

Blackburn

Blum

Bost

Boustany

Brady (PA)

Brady (TX)

Brat

Bridenstine

Brooks (AL)

Brooks (IN)

Buchanan

Buck

Bucshon

Burgess

Bustos

Byrne

Calvert

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Chabot

Chaffetz

Clawson (FL)

Clyburn

Coffman

Cole

Collins (GA)

Collins (NY)

Comstock

Conaway

Cook

Cooper

Costa

Costello (PA)

Cramer

Crawford

Crenshaw

Cuellar

Culberson

Curbelo (FL)

Davis, Rodney

Denham

Dent

DeSantis

DesJarlais

Diaz-Balart

Dold

Doyle (PA)

Duffy

Duncan (SC)

Duncan (TN)

Ellmers

Emmer

Farenthold

Fincher

Fleischmann

Fleming

Flores

Forbes

Fortenberry

Foxx

Franks (AZ)

Frelinghuysen

Garrett

Gibbs

Gibson

Gohmert

Goodlatte

Gosar

Gowdy

Graham

Granger

Graves (GA)

Graves (LA)

Graves (MO)

Green, Al Green, Gene

Griffith

Grothman

Guinta

Guthrie

Hanna

Hardy

Harper

Harris

Hartzler

Heck (NV)

Hensarling

Herrera Beutler

Hice (GA)

Hill

Hinojosa

Holding

Hudson

Huelskamp

Huizenga (MI)

Hultgren

Hunter

Hurd (TX)

Hurt (VA)

Issa

Jackson Lee

Jenkins (KS)

Jenkins (WV)

Johnson (OH)

Johnson, Sam

Jolly

Jones

Jordan

Joyce

Katko

Kelly (PA)

King (IA)

King (NY)

Kinzinger (IL)

Kline

Knight

Labrador

LaMalfa

Lamborn

Lance

Latta

Lipinski

LoBiondo

Loebsack

Long

Loudermilk

Love

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

Lummis

MacArthur

Maloney, Sean

Marchant

Marino

Massie

McCarthy

McCaul

McClintock

McHenry

McKinley

McMorris Rodgers

McSally

Meadows

Meehan

Messer

Mica

Miller (FL)

Miller (MI)

Moolenaar

Mooney (WV)

Mullin

Mulvaney

Murphy (FL)

Murphy (PA)

Neugebauer

Newhouse

Noem

Nolan

Norcross

Nugent

Nunes

Olson

Palazzo

Palmer

Paulsen Pearce

Perry

Peterson

Pittenger

Pitts

Poe (TX)

Poliquin

Pompeo

Posey

Price (GA)

Ratcliffe

Reed

Reichert

Renacci

Ribble

Rice (SC)

Richmond

Rigell

Roby

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rohrabacher

Rokita

Rooney (FL)

Ros-Lehtinen

Roskam

Ross

Rothfus

Rouzer

Royce

Russell

Ryan (WI)

Salmon

Sanford

Scalise

Schock

Schrader

Schweikert

Scott, Austin

Scott, David

Sensenbrenner

Sessions

Sewell (AL)

Shimkus

Shuster

Simpson

Sires

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Stefanik

Stewart

Stivers

Stutzman

Thompson (PA)

Thornberry

Tiberi

Tipton

Trott

Turner

Upton

Valadao

Veasey

Vela

Wagner

Walberg

Walden

Walker

Walorski

Walters, Mimi

Walz

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Wenstrup

Westerman

Westmoreland

Whitfield

Williams

Wilson (SC)

Wittman

Womack

Woodall

Yoder

Yoho

Young (AK)

Young (IA)

Young (IN)

Zeldin

Zinke

---- NAYS 152 ---

Adams

Aguilar

Amash

Bass

Beatty

Becerra

Bera

Beyer

Blumenauer

Bonamici

Boyle (PA)

Brown (FL)

Brownley (CA)

Butterfield

Capps

Capuano

Cárdenas

Carney

Carson (IN)

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Chu (CA)

Cicilline

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Clay

Cleaver

Cohen

Connolly

Conyers

Courtney

Crowley

Cummings

Davis (CA)

Davis, Danny

DeFazio

DeGette

Delaney

DeLauro

DelBene

DeSaulnier

Deutch

Dingell

Edwards

Ellison

Engel

Eshoo

Esty

Farr

Fattah

Foster Frankel (FL)

Fudge

Gabbard

Gallego

Garamendi

Grayson

Grijalva

Gutiérrez

Hahn

Hastings

Heck (WA)

Higgins

Himes

Honda

Huffman

Israel

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Johnson, E. B.

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Kennedy

Kildee

Kilmer

Kind

Kirkpatrick

Kuster

Langevin

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Lawrence

Levin

Lewis

Lieu (CA)

Lofgren

Lowenthal

Lowey

Lujan Grisham (NM)

Luján, Ben Ray (NM)

Lynch

Maloney, Carolyn

Matsui

McCollum

McDermott

McGovern

McNerney

Meeks

Meng

Moore

Moulton

Nadler Napolitano

Neal

O'Rourke

Pallone

Pascrell

Payne

Pelosi

Perlmutter

Peters

Pingree

Pocan

Polis

Price (NC)

Quigley

Rangel

Rice (NY)

Roybal-Allard

Ruppersberger

Rush

Ryan (OH)

Sánchez, Linda T.

Sarbanes

Schakowsky

Schiff

Scott (VA)

Serrano

Sherman

Sinema

Slaughter

Smith (WA)

Speier

Swalwell (CA)

Takai

Takano

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Titus

Tonko

Torres

Tsongas

Van Hollen

Vargas

Velázquez

Visclosky

Wasserman Schultz

Waters, Maxine

Watson Coleman

Welch

Wilson (FL)

Yarmuth

---- NOT VOTING 10 ---