Title: Freedom from Russian Energy Enterprise and Domestic Oil Maximization Act
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Freedom from Russian Energy Enterprise and Domestic Oil Maximization Act or the FREEDOM Act
This bill directs the President to prohibit imports of crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, and liquified natural gas from Russia. It also (1) authorizes the construction and operation of the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline to import oil from Canada into the United States, and (2) nullifies the Executive Order titled Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad and signed January 27, 2021.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6947 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6947

    To prohibit the importation of crude oil, petroleum, petroleum 
 products, and liquefied natural gas from the Russian Federation, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 7, 2022

Mr. Arrington (for himself, Mr. Newhouse, Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Gibbs, Mr. 
Babin, Mr. Duncan, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. Budd, Mr. 
  Calvert, and Mrs. Boebert) introduced the following bill; which was 
  referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the 
 Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Agriculture, Energy 
 and Commerce, Natural Resources, Foreign Affairs, Financial Services, 
  Intelligence (Permanent Select), Armed Services, and Oversight and 
 Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prohibit the importation of crude oil, petroleum, petroleum 
 products, and liquefied natural gas from the Russian Federation, and 
                          for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Freedom from Russian Energy 
Enterprise and Domestic Oil Maximization Act'' or the ``FREEDOM Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION OF CRUDE OIL, PETROLEUM, PETROLEUM 
              PRODUCTS, AND LIQUEFIED NATURAL GAS FROM THE RUSSIAN 
              FEDERATION.

    (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b) and 
notwithstanding any other provision of law, effective beginning on the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall prohibit the 
importation of crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, and liquefied 
natural gas from the Russian Federation.
    (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply with respect to 
crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas 
imported on or before 11:59 p.m. eastern daylight time on the date that 
is 45 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.

SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE.

    (a) Authorization.--TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P., may 
construct, connect, operate, and maintain the pipeline facilities at 
the international border of the United States and Canada at Phillips 
County, Montana, for the import of oil from Canada to the United States 
as described in the Presidential Permit of March 29, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 
13101 2 (April 3, 2019)).
    (b) Presidential Permits.--No Presidential permit or any other 
Executive order shall be required for the construction, connection, 
operation, or maintenance of the pipeline facilities described in 
subsection (a).

SEC. 4. NULLIFICATION OF EXECUTIVE ORDER.

    Executive Order 14008 (86 Fed. Reg. 7619; relating to tackling the 
climate crisis at home and abroad) shall have no force or effect.
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