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On the recordMarch 5, 2021
I would like to call up amendment No. 1197 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant bill clerk read as follows: The Senator from Montana [Mr. Tester] proposes an amendment numbered 1197 to amendment No. 891. The amendment is as follows: (Purpose: To require the President to review and approve the Keystone XL Pipeline to assist COVID-impacted communities) At the end of title X, add the following: SEC. 10___. APPROVAL OF KEYSTONE XL PIPELINE. (a) In General.--Not later than 60 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall review and approve a permit for the project of TransCanada Keystone Pipeline, L.P., to construct, connect, operate, and maintain the pipeline and cross-border facilities at the northern border of the State of Montana necessary to import oil from Canada to the United States, as described in the Presidential Permit of March 29, 2019 (84 Fed. Reg. 13101 (April 3, 2019)), if the President determines that the project would create construction jobs and increase tax revenues in communities that have been economically impacted by COVID-19. (b) Revocation.--Section 6 of Executive Order 13990 (86 Fed. Reg. 7041 (January 25, 2021)) shall have no force or effect.
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Jon Tester
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