Keystone XL Pipeline Act -- Continued

Floor Speech

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Mr. MARKEY. Mr. President, this is a motion to table the Markey
amendment, which is an amendment to have every Member of the Senate be
put on record as to whether or not the oil coming through the Keystone
Pipeline is then exported out of the United States. Each Member of the Senate
should be recorded on that issue.

We import 5 million barrels of oil per day into the United States. We
should not allow the Canadians to use the United States as a straw to
be able to then go down to the Gulf of Mexico and send that oil out of
the country. We export young men and women over to the Middle East in
order to protect oil coming in from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. This is a
chance to keep oil in America so we don't have to export it.

I do not believe the appropriate vote for Members is to support a
tabling of the Markey amendment so that we don't actually reach the
heart of this substantive issue, which is that we should be working to
have energy independence in America. When we are importing 5 million
barrels of oil a day from Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait, we are in
no way independent.

I thank the Presiding Officer for the opportunity to speak.

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