Less than one week after the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, U.S. senators on Tuesday are expected to vote on a Keystone bill of their own.

The Senate’s Hoeven-Landrieu bill would authorize construction of the pipeline, which would bring up to 830,000 barrels of oil a day from tar sands in Alberta, Canada to refineries in Houston and Port Arthur, Texas.

Co-sponsored by U.S. Sens. John Hoeven, R-N.D., and Mary Landrieu, D-La., the bill will need 60 votes in the Senate to pass without the potential for a filibuster from opponents. Landrieu on Wednesday called for a vote for unanimous consent on the bill.

In a conference call Friday, she said she is confident that 60 votes have been secured in the Senate for the bill’s passage. She said the Hoeven-Landrieu bill was drafted “to go the distance.”

Landrieu said she was “thrilled” that the House on Friday passed its own legislation on Keystone, a bill by her Senate opponent, U.S. Rep. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge. Cassidy’s bill was the House’s ninth attempt since May 2013 to send Keystone legislation to the Senate for approval.

The House passed Cassidy’s bill 252-161. No GOP lawmaker voted against it; 31 Democrats supported it.

“The house passed other versions of the bill, which would’ve had limited chances of passing in the Senate,” Landrieu said. “That’s why we could never take anything up that the House passed because they had drafted it in a way that could not have passed the Senate.”

If the Senate passes Hoeven-Landrieu on Tuesday, President Barack Obama will have 10 days, excluding Sunday, to sign it. Within the 10-day period, Obama can veto the bill and send it back to the House.

It would require a two-thirds majority vote in both houses of Congress — 67 in the Senate and 287 in the House — to override a veto.

Obama has said the pipeline would not be in the country’s interest if it contributes to rising carbon dioxide emissions, which are a factor in climate change.

Landrieu said Friday that she wasn’t sure if 67 votes could be secured in the Senate to help override a presidential veto. She will defend her Senate seat against Cassidy in a Dec. 6 runoff election.

The U.S. State Department in January said Keystone would be unlikely to increase greenhouse gas emissions. The department estimated that the pipeline would create 42,000 direct and indirect jobs.(MGNonline)