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Today Congressman Adam Kinzinger (IL-11), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, spoke out on the floor of the House in support of H.R. 1938, the North-American Made Energy Security Act.

"What does the pipeline mean for the United States and for Illinois? For starters it means creating more than 100,000 American jobs. It means 1.3 million barrels of oil from our friends to the North, which means we will need less oil from the Middle East, less oil from Venezuela, less oil from countries we can no longer rely on and are not friendly to the interests of the United States. And, it means $5.2 billion in new property tax revenue for bankrupt states.

"The State Department has at their discretion, the authority to decide if the US benefits from the pipeline. The fact is that someone will benefit from the oil out of Alberta. If it's not the United States it will be China, unless we take immediate action to expand the Keystone pipeline - and it will be American businesses and consumers who will suffer the consequences from our inaction."

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