I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1938 
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 
A BILL 
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. 
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’’. 
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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 se-
curity. 
(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 high-
er 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 
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 
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sources of crude and improves certainty of fuel sup-
ply for the Department of Defense, the largest con-
sumer of petroleum 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 prod-
ucts 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, returns are much lower. 
(7) The principal choice for Canadian oil ex-
porters is between moving increasing crude oil vol-
umes to the United States or Asia, led by China. In-
creased Canadian oil exports to China will result in 
increased 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 ‘‘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 
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benefit from supplying goods and services required 
for ongoing Canadian oil sands operations and ex-
pansion. 
(10) There has been more than 2 years of con-
sideration 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 Key-
stone XL from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Ne-
braska, 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. 
(13) The Keystone XL pipeline would provide 
short-term and long-term employment opportunities 
and related labor income benefits, as well as govern-
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