Congressional Republicans have thrown the ball back in President Obama’s court on the hot-button issue of the Keystone XL pipeline.

The proposed oil pipeline is entering its sixth year of deliberations, spanning nearly the entire term of Obama’s presidency thus far, with the president arguing that bureaucratic formalities have delayed a decision on the matter and skeptics arguing that he was just delaying it because of the upcoming election. Now that the election is over, the bipartisan bill may soon be back on Obama’s desk, and many are asking Obama to simply make a decision on the matter, according to the Associated Press.

Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.), one of a minority of Democrats that supports the pipeline, is asking the State Department and Obama to make a decision on the pipeline, “because six years is beyond long enough.”

Obama indefinitely suspended the pipeline as the review by the State Department wound down in April in what some would characterize as an intentional delay to keep Obama from having to decided before the midterm elections, although the White House countered that uncertainty about the route of the pipeline and a Nebraska court challenge were the real reasons.

However, the Nebraska Supreme Court threw out the lawsuit on Friday, which would clear the way for the pipeline to be built in the state as previously planned.

The State Department pledged to renew the review, but provided no finish date for it. Meanwhile, lawmakers — mostly Republicans, but some Democrats — are anxious for a decision to be made, and don’t believe waiting for the review to finish is necessary. Now that Republicans have control of both the House and the Senate, lawmakers were able to put the bill on the fast track, getting it back in front of Obama who may be hard-pressed to delay a decision on it again.

The Keystone XL pipeline would stretch 1,179 miles from Canada to refineries along the Texas Gulf Coast, carrying 800,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Proponents hail it as a job-creator, but Obama said most of the job increases would be outside of the United States’ borders.

The House passed the bill on Friday, making it one of the first bills taken up by the new Congress this year. The Senate, meanwhile, is going to hold a test vote on an identical bill first thing next week, and hopes to deliver the final bill to the president shortly.

Obama has threatened to veto the bill, and Republicans don’t yet appear to have the votes to override that veto.

Opponents argue that the pipeline would cause the United States to take a step backward on climate change, but the energy industry says Obama is jeopardizing a project that would cost $8 billion and create thousands of jobs.

Obama has said he’d allow the pipeline, but only if it didn’t lead to increased carbon dioxide emissions, expressing skepticism at the claims that the pipeline will create more jobs and lessen dependence on foreign oil.