A vote is scheduled for Friday in the U.S. House of Representatives on the bill authorizing the Keystone XL pipeline project and a vote is expected in the U.S. Senate as early as next week.

It could be the first legislation the new Congress, with Republicans in charge in both chambers, sends to President Barack Obama but the White House is already threatening a veto.

On Tuesday, Josh Earnest, White House press secretary, said President Obama will veto the Keystone legislation if it makes it to his desk as he awaits a completed U.S. State Department review of the project which is designed to move oil from Canada’s tar sands to Nebraska en route to the Gulf Coast.

“I guess you could say, ‘Bring it on,'” said 1st District Congressman David McKinley (R-W.Va.) of the veto threat on Wednesday’s MetroNews “Talkline.” “If he does veto it, we will put it up for a vote to override the veto and let the chips fall.

As of now, the U.S. State Department has a say in the more than 1,200-mile pipeline’s possible construction because it would cross an international border. As proposed, the U.S. House bill removes that authority.

“If he vetoes it, the American public’s going to know it’s not Congress that’s holding things up, it’s the President,” McKinley said of the measure the U.S. House has previously approved several times. “He was sending the signal to (former Senate Majority Leader) Harry Reid of what to do and Harry did his bidding.”

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