July 23, 2012. House Republicans drafted another bill to speed work on the Keystone XL oil pipeline after previous efforts failed to overturn President Barack Obama's rejection of a permit for the project. The legislation proposed by Representative Lee Terry of Nebraska and other Republicans would let the section of the proposed TransCanada Corp. pipeline across Montana and South Dakota advance without Obama's approval. Obama rejected the project in January, and urged the company to reapply while a revised route is studied to avoid an aquifer in Nebraska.