[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 1101 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 1101

 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United 
   States should support the safe and responsible development of its 
energy resources via drilling, in an effort to maintain a robust energy 
supply chain that promotes national security, safeguards against energy 
        scarcity, and reduces energy poverty for all Americans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 10, 2022

Mr. Keller (for himself, Mr. Stauber, Mrs. Fischbach, Mr. LaMalfa, Mr. 
 Mann, Mr. Pfluger, Mr. Arrington, Mr. Newhouse, Mr. Ellzey, Mr. Buck, 
Mr. Bost, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Balderson, Mr. Bishop of North Carolina, Mr. 
 McKinley, Ms. Herrell, Mr. Valadao, Mr. Williams of Texas, Mr. Emmer, 
Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, and Mr. Rodney Davis of Illinois) submitted 
   the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Education and 
 Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                               RESOLUTION


 
 Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the United 
   States should support the safe and responsible development of its 
energy resources via drilling, in an effort to maintain a robust energy 
supply chain that promotes national security, safeguards against energy 
        scarcity, and reduces energy poverty for all Americans.

Whereas it is in the national security interests of the United States to 
        maintain a strong domestic energy supply;
Whereas the timely delivery of affordable energy domestically and 
        internationally requires an advanced and robust domestic energy supply 
        chain;
Whereas energy workers and businesses require clear and supportive Federal 
        policy to adequately maintain and develop the domestic energy supply 
        chain to meet growing energy needs;
Whereas the Biden administration has taken steps, through executive action as 
        well as in rhetoric, to limit American drillers' ability to develop the 
        strategic oil and natural gas resources of the United States;
Whereas all the $900,000,000 deposited annually into the Land and Water 
        Conservation Fund is derived from Federal oil and gas leasing;
Whereas, as of April 29, 2022, crude oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve fell 
        to 550,000,000 barrels, which is the lowest level since August 2002;
Whereas recent technological advances in energy resource exploration, drilling, 
        completion, and production have led to unprecedented levels of 
        efficiency and emissions reductions;
Whereas each oil and natural gas drilling rig in the United States can 
        facilitate the production of over 1,000,000 barrels of oil and between 
        5,000,000,000 and 10,000,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas in the first 
        year from the wells it drills over a 12-month period;
Whereas increased production and use of American natural gas have helped the 
        United States reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 22 percent from 
        2005 levels; and
Whereas the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing economic downturn have devastated the 
        United States upstream energy sector, which now faces a crippling 
        shortage within its workforce: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives that 
the United States should support, through rhetoric and policy, the 
responsible development of hydrocarbons via drilling, including by--
            (1) repealing administrative precedent that limits the 
        exploration, drilling, and production of domestic natural 
        resources on Federal lands, both onshore and offshore;
            (2) clearly defining to the public the relationship 
        drilling has to future production and delivery of energy 
        resources; and
            (3) incentivizing workforce development in the United 
        States's domestic energy industry.
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