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Keystone XL Pipeline Act

Floor Speech

Date: Jan. 28, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Oil and Gas Environment

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Mrs. GILLIBRAND. Mr. President, I urge my colleagues to vote in favor
of the Keystone XL Pipeline Act. As it stands now, gas companies in
this country do not have to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act--
the law that keeps our tapwater clear, safe, and clean.

For decades now, this loophole has exempted hydrofracking and gas
storage companies from this law, even though every other energy
industry, including oil and coal industries, is legally obligated to
comply. If big coal can comply with this law, so can gas companies.

This special exemption is unfair, it is unnecessary, and it is
unsafe. My amendment would finally remove it from the law. I urge my
colleagues not to let this chance pass us by.

I ask for the yeas and nays.

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