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4	4	STSESSION S. 1035
5	5	To prohibit certain exports of natural gas produced or refined in the United
6	6	States, and for other purposes.
7	7	IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
8	8	MARCH13, 2025
9	9	Mr. S
10	10	ULLIVANintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
11	11	to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
12	12	A BILL
13	13	To prohibit certain exports of natural gas produced or
14	14	refined in the United States, and for other purposes.
15	15	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
16	16	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
17	17	SECTION 1. FINDINGS. 3
18	18	Congress finds that— 4
19	19	(1) natural gas that is produced or refined in 5
20	20	the United States should be exported from domestic 6
21	21	terminals given the economic and national security 7
22	22	concerns associated with exporting that natural gas 8
23	23	from countries with corrupt governments such as 9
24	24	Mexico; 10
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28	28	(2) Mexico is ranked 140th out of 180 coun-1
29	29	tries in the 2024 Transparency International Cor-2
30	30	ruption Perceptions Index, with corruption perme-3
31	31	ating political and economic segments of society in 4
32	32	Mexico; 5
33	33	(3) according to the 2024 Investment Climate 6
34	34	Statement of the Department of State, ‘‘Mexico’s 7
35	35	current executive administration has been said to 8
36	36	erode the autonomy and publicly question the value 9
37	37	of specific antitrust and energy regulators and it has 10
38	38	proposed dissolving some of them to cut costs. Fur-11
39	39	thermore, reporting suggests that corruption con-12
40	40	tinues to affect equal enforcement of some regula-13
41	41	tions.’’; 14
42	42	(4) the corruption permeating Mexico is illus-15
43	43	trated by the significant fuel theft in Mexico, which 16
44	44	is so rampant that— 17
45	45	(A) Roberto Dı´az de Leo´n, the former 18
46	46	President of the National Fuel Retailers Asso-19
47	47	ciation in Mexico, referred to fuel theft net-20
48	48	works as main competitors of gas station own-21
49	49	ers; 22
50	50	(B) according to Roberto Dı´az de Leo´n, 23
51	51	there were at least 4 illegal fuel stations for 24
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55	55	every 1 of the 13,000 legal fuel stations in Mex-1
56	56	ico, as of 2020; and 2
57	57	(C) the former president of Mexico, Andre´s 3
58	58	Manuel Lo´pez Obrador, suggested that as much 4
59	59	as
60	60	4
61	61	⁄5of fuel theft is orchestrated by elements 5
62	62	of the Mexican state, and fuel thieves depend 6
63	63	on complicit politicians, police, and insiders at 7
64	64	state-controlled oil companies to make fuel theft 8
65	65	possible; 9
66	66	(5) employees of the Mexican state-owned pe-10
67	67	troleum company, Pemex, have reportedly been 11
68	68	threatened, kidnapped, and tortured by criminal car-12
69	69	tels in Mexico to provide information on pipelines; 13
70	70	(6) Pemex has faced frequent allegations of cor-14
71	71	ruption, and, in 2018, Adria´n Lajous Vargas, the 15
72	72	former chief at Pemex, stated that corruption was 16
73	73	rampant and ‘‘everywhere in all areas and at all lev-17
74	74	els of the hierarchy’’; 18
75	75	(7) Mexico has centralized governmental power 19
76	76	in its executive branch, including through judicial re-20
77	77	forms in September 2024 that asserted political con-21
78	78	trol over the judiciary of Mexico by subjecting all 22
79	79	judges to replacement through elections that favor 23
80	80	the ruling political party; 24
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84	84	(8) the politicization of the judicial branch in 1
85	85	Mexico imperils the principle of impartiality and 2
86	86	casts doubt on whether laws will be applied without 3
87	87	favor, contracts will be honored, and trade disputes 4
88	88	will be fairly resolved; 5
89	89	(9) Mexican judicial reforms are expected to re-6
90	90	sult in changes to regulatory agencies that are crit-7
91	91	ical to upholding labor, environmental, and trade 8
92	92	standards enshrined under the United States-Mex-9
93	93	ico-Canada Agreement; 10
94	94	(10) Mexico has also been in violation of its en-11
95	95	ergy commitments under the United States-Mexico- 12
96	96	Canada Agreement through violations such as— 13
97	97	(A) granting Mexican state-owned energy 14
98	98	companies priority over private investors, in-15
99	99	cluding adopting several measures to favor 16
100	100	Pemex and the state-owned electrical utility, the 17
101	101	Comisio´n Federal de Electricidad, at the ex-18
102	102	pense of foreign investors, the United States, 19
103	103	and Canada; and 20
104	104	(B) erecting new barriers to foreign trade 21
105	105	and investment; and 22
106	106	(11) the export of natural gas that is produced 23
107	107	or processed in the United States and exported to 24
108	108	terminals located in Mexico— 25
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112	112	(A) is not in the national interest of the 1
113	113	United States; and 2
114	114	(B) is a national security and trade con-3
115	115	cern to the United States. 4
116	116	SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON EXPORTS OF NATURAL GAS. 5
117	117	Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no per-6
118	118	son shall export any natural gas produced or refined in 7
119	119	the United States to a foreign country with the intent of 8
120	120	further exporting that natural gas through a foreign LNG 9
121	121	terminal (as defined in section 2 of the Natural Gas Act 10
122	122	(15 U.S.C. 717a)). 11
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