[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 614 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 614

  Condemning the Biden administration's Executive actions imposing a 
moratorium on oil and gas leases on Federal lands and waters, given the 
 administration has also called for increased importation of crude oil 
from OPEC+ countries and refused to implement congressionally mandated 
    sanctions on the builders of the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            August 31, 2021

  Mr. Latta (for himself, Mr. Walberg, Mr. Higgins of Louisiana, Mr. 
 McKinley, Mr. Johnson of Ohio, Ms. Herrell, Mr. Balderson, Mr. Long, 
  Mr. Curtis, Mr. Crawford, Mr. Griffith, Ms. Cheney, Mr. Duncan, Mr. 
 Palmer, Mr. Obernolte, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Budd, Mr. Mann, 
Mrs. Bice of Oklahoma, and Mr. Weber of Texas) submitted the following 
resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, 
and in addition to the Committees on Natural Resources, Transportation 
      and Infrastructure, and Foreign Affairs, 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


 
  Condemning the Biden administration's Executive actions imposing a 
moratorium on oil and gas leases on Federal lands and waters, given the 
 administration has also called for increased importation of crude oil 
from OPEC+ countries and refused to implement congressionally mandated 
    sanctions on the builders of the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline.

Whereas, on January 20, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr., issued an 
        ``Executive Order on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and 
        Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis'', which revoked the 
        Presidential permit to construct, connect, operate, and maintain 
        pipeline facilities at the international border of the United States and 
        Canada (the Keystone XL pipeline);
Whereas, on January 27, 2021, President Biden issued an ``Executive Order on 
        Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad'' (EO 14008), which 
        indefinitely suspended any new oil and gas auctions on Federal land and 
        water, pending a review conducted by the Department of the Interior;
Whereas, on May 19, 2021, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, acting on behalf of 
        the Biden administration, waived congressionally mandated sanctions on 
        Nord Stream 2 AG and its CEO Matthias Warnig, an ally of Russian 
        President Vladimir Putin;
Whereas, on July 27, 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland appeared before 
        the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and refused to 
        specify when the review of new oil and gas leases would be complete;
Whereas, on August 11, 2021, President Biden's National Security Advisor, Jake 
        Sullivan, issued a statement calling on the OPEC+ countries (Algeria, 
        Angola, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, 
        the Republic of the Congo, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab 
        Emirates, and Venezuela) to increase production and exportation of crude 
        oil;
Whereas American consumers have seen a 40-percent increase in gasoline prices 
        since January 2021;
Whereas it is in the national security interests of the United States to control 
        its own energy supply;
Whereas the Biden administration's Executive actions limiting the productivity 
        of American energy producers in the oil and natural gas sectors are 
        putting at risk the United States goal of securing its energy future; 
        and
Whereas the American energy sector is more heavily regulated in the United 
        States from an environmental and safety perspective than anywhere else 
        in the world: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) condemns the Biden administration's Executive actions 
        canceling the Keystone pipeline and imposing a moratorium on 
        oil and gas leases on Federal lands and waters;
            (2) condemns the Biden administration's waiving of 
        congressionally mandated sanctions on officials connected with 
        the Nord Stream 2 pipeline; and
            (3) calls on the Biden administration to reverse its costly 
        energy agenda that is endangering American energy security and 
        increasing the Nation's reliance on foreign sources of energy.
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