"Hillary Clinton Declines To Take Position on Keystone"

"WINNIPEG, Manitoba — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday declined again to take a position on the Keystone XL pipeline, telling an audience in Canada that she would not express her views because of an ongoing review by the State Department.

'We have differences and you won't get me to talk about Keystone because I have steadily made clear that I'm not going to express an opinion,' said Clinton, a potential 2016 Democratic presidential candidate. 'It is in our process and that's where it belongs.'

Clinton was asked about U.S.-Canadian relations during a wide-ranging question-and-answer session in Winnipeg as Congress considers approving construction of the contentious, Canada-backed project. Making her first public remarks in a month, Clinton also touched upon the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, President Barack Obama's State of the Union address and the debate in Congress over Iran."

Ken Thomas reports for the Associated Press January 21, 2015.