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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1938 
[Report No. 112–140, Part I] 
To direct the President to expedite the consideration and approval of the 
construction and operation of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 23, 2011 
Mr. TERRY (for himself, Mr. ROSS of Arkansas, Mr. UPTON, Mr. WHITFIELD, 
Mr. SULLIVAN, Mr. GENE GREEN of Texas, Mrs. MCMORRIS RODGERS, 
Mr. WALDEN, Mr. MCKINLEY, Mr. GARDNER, Mr. SCALISE, Mrs. 
MYRICK, Mr. PITTS, and Mr. MURPHY of Pennsylvania) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Transportation 
and Infrastructure, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and 
Commerce and Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
JULY 8, 2011 
Reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce with an amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
JULY 22, 2011 
Additional sponsors: Mrs. BLACKBURN, Mr. BURGESS, Mr. FLORES, Mr. KING 
of Iowa, Mr. LATTA, Mrs. ELLMERS, Mr. CHAFFETZ, Mr. BROUN of 
Georgia, Mr. BOREN, Mr. DANIEL E. LUNGREN of California, Mr. SHIM-
KUS, Mr. REHBERG, Ms. JENKINS, Mr. HUELSKAMP, Mr. LONG, Mr. 
DUNCAN of Tennessee, Mr. LANDRY, Ms. GRANGER, Mr. MACK, Mr. 
PAUL, Mrs. LUMMIS, Mr. OLSON and Mr. POE of Texas 
JULY 22, 2011 
Ordered to be printed 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on May 23, 2011] 
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To direct the President to expedite the consideration and 
approval of the construction and operation of the Key-
stone XL oil pipeline, and for other purposes. 
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘North American-Made 
Energy Security Act’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds and declares the following: 
(1) The United States currently imports more 
than half of the oil it consumes, often from countries 
hostile to United States interests or with political and 
economic instability that compromises supply secu-
rity. 
(2) While a significant portion of imports are 
derived from allies such as Canada and Mexico, the 
United States remains vulnerable to substantial sup-
ply disruptions created by geopolitical tumult in 
major producing nations. 
(3) Strong increases in oil consumption in the 
developing world outpace growth in conventional oil 
supplies, bringing tight market conditions and higher 
oil prices in periods of global economic expansion or 
when supplies are threatened. 
(4) The development and delivery of oil and gas 
from Canada to the United States is in the national 
interest of the United States in order to secure oil 
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supplies to fill needs that are projected to otherwise 
be filled by increases in other foreign supplies, nota-
bly from the Middle East. 
(5) Continued development of North American 
energy resources, including Canadian oil, increases 
domestic refiners’ access to stable and reliable sources 
of crude and improves certainty of fuel supply for the 
Department of Defense, the largest consumer of petro-
leum in the United States. 
(6) Canada and the United States have the 
world’s largest two-way trading relationship. There-
fore, for every United States dollar spent on products 
from Canada, including oil, 90 cents is returned to 
the United States economy. When the same metrics 
are applied to trading relationships with some other 
major sources of United States crude oil imports, re-
turns are much lower. 
(7) The principal choice for Canadian oil export-
ers is between moving increasing crude oil volumes to 
the United States or Asia, led by China. Increased 
Canadian oil exports to China will result in in-
creased United States crude oil imports from other 
foreign sources, especially the Middle East. 
(8) Increased Canadian crude oil imports into 
the United States correspondingly reduce the scale of 
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‘‘wealth transfers’’ to other more distant foreign 
sources resulting from the greater cost of importing 
crude oil from those sources. 
(9) Not only are United States companies major 
investors in Canadian oil sands, but many United 
States businesses throughout the country benefit from 
supplying goods and services required for ongoing Ca-
nadian oil sands operations and expansion. 
(10) There has been more than 2 years of consid-
eration and a coordinated review by more than a 
dozen Federal agencies of the technical aspects and of 
the environmental, social, and economic impacts of 
the proposed pipeline project known as the Keystone 
XL from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Nebraska, 
and then on to the United States Gulf Coast through 
Cushing, Oklahoma. 
(11) Keystone XL represents a high capacity 
pipeline supply option that could meet early as well 
as long-term market demand for crude oil to United 
States refineries, and could also potentially bring over 
100,000 barrels per day of United States Bakken 
crudes to market. 
(12) Completion of the Keystone XL pipeline 
would increase total Keystone pipeline capacity by 
700,000 barrels per day to 1,290,000 barrels per day. 
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