[Congressional Record Volume 161, Number 6 (Tuesday, January 13, 2015)]
[Senate]
[Page S214]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 22. Mr. MENENDEZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 1, to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       In section 2, strike subsection (e) and insert the 
     following:
       (e) Private Property Savings Clause.--
       (1) In general.--Nothing in this Act authorizes the use of 
     condemnation to acquire land or an interest in land for the 
     pipeline and cross-border facilities described in subsection 
     (a).
       (2) Willing sellers.--Land or an interest in land for the 
     pipeline and cross-border facilities described in subsection 
     (a) may only be acquired from willing sellers.
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