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Amendments

Petroleum: decrease dependence on foreign sources through use of renewable fuels, conservation, improving efficiency, and increasing domestic energy supplies (S. 2557), S9484 [28SE]

Power resources: establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain (S. 2214), S2120 [4AP]

Articles and editorials

Buffering Oil Prices, S547 [9FE]

Candidate in the Balance, S9369 [27SE]

Case of Unrefined Behaviour, S9352 [27SE]

Collins, Snowe Criticize Oil Reserve Release Plan, H11590 [30OC]

DOE Sends Report to Congress Analyzing Costs, Benefits of Regional Oil Product Reserve, S546 [9FE]

Draw Down of Oil From the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, S10141 [10OC]

Drop in the Barrel?, S9352 [27SE]

Europe's Low Oil Supplies May Blunt U.S. Effort, H11589 [30OC]

Fueling the Future, S1333 [8MR]

Iraq Pumps Critical Oil, and Knows It, S8779 [20SE]

Oil From Reserve in High Demand—Bidders Grab 30 Million Barrels, S9917 [5OC]

Oil Output May Be Hostage to Iran, Iraq Agendas, S1165 [6MR]

Oil Price Falls Nearly Enough for OPEC To Cut Production, S2488 [11AP]

Oil Prices Generating Bad Ideas, E1644 [2OC]

Oil Reserves—Tapping This Supply Won't Solve Energy Dependency, S10140 [10OC]

OPEC Oil Production, S7148 [18JY]

Release of Oil Barely Helps Needy States, H11590 [30OC]

Sweetheart Deals? Strategic Reserve Contracts Look Highly Questionable, H11591 [30OC]

Tight U.S. Gas Market Boosts Oil Prices, S3959 [16MY]

Time To Consider Reviving the Assay Commission, E246 [8MR]

U.S. Tightens Rules for Bidding on Oil, H11591 [30OC]

Bills and resolutions

Dept. of Energy: create an oil reserve for use when fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (see S. 2047), S538 [9FE] (see H.R. 3608), H278 [9FE]

———draw down and sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (see H.R. 3533), H48 (see H.R. 3543), H49 [27JA]

———draw down and sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to cases of severe emergency supply interruptions on a State or regional level (see H.R. 3644), H341 [10FE]

———draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (see H.R. 5252), H7990 [21SE] (see H. Con. Res. 273, 274), H921 [9MR]

———require report on readiness of heating oil and propane industries to respond to rises in prices due to anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (see S. 2072), S613 [10FE] (see H.R. 3662), H454 [15FE]

———treatment of Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (see S. Con. Res. 88), S1118 [2MR] (see H. Con. Res. 267), H756 [8MR] (see H. Con. Res. 291), H1163 [21MR]

Petroleum: decrease dependence on foreign sources through use of renewable fuels, conservation, improving efficiency, and increasing domestic energy supplies (see S. 2557), S4013 [16MY] (see H.R. 5316), H8405 [27SE]

———ensure that petroleum importers, refiners, and wholesalers accumulate minimally adequate supplies of home heating oil to meet reasonably foreseeable needs in the Northeast (see S. 2094), S799 [24FE] (see H.R. 3807), H631 [1MR]

———support increase in world crude oil supplies (see S. Res. 263), S867 [28FE] (see H. Con. Res. 284), H1077 [15MR]

Power resources: establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain (see S. 2214), S1315 [8MR]

———permit draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities and provide tax credits for certain energy efficiency improvements (see H.R. 4043), H1163 [21MR]

———restore ownership of uranium enrichment facilities to the Federal Government (see H.R. 4883), H6469 [18JY]

U.S. Assay Commission: reestablish (see H.R. 3866), H756 [8MR]

Letters

Draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve: Senator Murkowski, S10586 [13OC]

Venetie Tribal Government Council negotiation rights relative to lands offered for competitive oil and gas leases: Native Village of Venetie, S1318 [8MR], S1647 [23MR]

Motions

Petroleum: decrease dependence on foreign sources through use of renewable fuels, conservation, improving efficiency, and increasing domestic energy supplies (S. 2557), S10039 [6OC], S11206 [27OC]

Press releases

Arctic Refuge Needs Your Help: Sierra Club, S1318 [8MR]

Proposals

Venetie Tribal Government Council negotiation rights relative to lands offered for competitive oil and gas leases: Native Village of Venetie, S1318 [8MR], S1647 [23MR]

Remarks in House

Dept. of Energy: create an oil reserve for use when fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather, H1205 [22MR], H8656 [3OC], E547 [12AP]

———draw down and sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (H.R. 3533), H417 [15FE]

———draw down and sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (H.R. 3543), H418 [15FE]

———draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, H7937, H7939 [21SE], H8037, H8054-H8056 [25SE], H8205 [27SE], H8410, H8411, H8413-H8415, H8423, H8434 [28SE], H8777 [4OC], H8914-H8921 [5OC], H11589 [30OC]

———draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities, H1202, H1203 [22MR]

———extend Strategic Petroleum Reserve, H5269-H5274 [27JN]

———purchase ethanol and biodiesel fuel through a draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, H1607 [30MR], H4554 [15JN]

———solar and renewable energy technology programs funding, H5250-H5254 [27JN]

———treatment of Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (H. Con. Res. 267), E257 [9MR]

———treatment of Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (H. Con. Res. 291), E543 [12AP]

Iran: U.S. policy, H3910 [6JN]

LIHEAP: funding, E152 [16FE]

Petroleum: decrease dependence on foreign sources through use of renewable fuels, conservation, improving efficiency, and increasing domestic energy supplies, H5250-H5254 [27JN], H8420 [28SE], H8774-H8781 [4OC], E1644 [2OC], E1790 [13OC]

———dependence on foreign sources, H540 [29FE], H760 [9MR], H924 [13MR], H1115 [16MR], H1143 [21MR], H1289 [23MR], H1631 [3AP], H1724 [4AP], H4463-H4465 [14JN], H4658 [19JN], H5075 [23JN], H5174, H5175, H5248, H5268 [27JN], H5850 [12JY], H6057 [17JY], H8783-H8785 [4OC], H8899 [5OC], H9871, H9872 [12OC], H11463 [28OC], E55 [2FE], E547 [12AP], E1970 [28OC]

———ensure that petroleum importers, refiners, and wholesalers accumulate minimally adequate supplies of home heating oil to meet reasonably foreseeable needs in the Northeast, E543 [12AP]

———influences on rise in prices, H415 [15FE]

Power resources: Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve funding through reductions in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, H4550-H4555 [15JN]

———permit draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities and provide tax credits for certain energy efficiency improvements (H.R. 4043), E364 [21MR]

———promote use of hydrogen in combination with fossil and synthetic fuels, H5252 [27JN]

———restore ownership of uranium enrichment facilities to the Federal Government (H.R. 4883), H6090 [17JY], H6440 [18JY]

Strategic Petroleum Reserve: extend and improve, H1614, H1615, H1622, H1623, H1626 [30MR]

———reauthorize, H5223 [27JN], H8413-H8415, H8420, H8421, H8423 [28SE]

Taxation: incentives to encourage domestic production of oil and gas and respond to surging foreign oil imports (H.R. 1116), H1143 [21MR]

U.S. Assay Commission: reestablish (H.R. 3866), E245 [8MR]

Remarks in Senate

Dept. of Energy: create an oil reserve for use when fuel oil prices rise sharply because of anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (S. 2047), S545-S547 [9FE], S1622 [23MR]

———draw down and sale of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (S. 1951), S1543 [22MR]

———draw down of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, S1448 [20MR], S1646 [23MR], S8872-S8874 [21SE], S9020, S9023, S9025 [22SE], S9129-S9131 [25SE], S9232, S9235, S9242 [26SE], S9350, S9368 [27SE], S9876, S9877, S9885, S9892-S9895, S9917 [5OC], S10069-S10071 [6OC], S10140, S10141 [10OC], S10486-S10488 [12OC], S11290-S11293 [27OC]

———require report on readiness of heating oil and propane industries to respond to rises in prices due to anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather, S8171 [7SE]

———require report on readiness of heating oil and propane industries to respond to rises in prices due to anticompetitive activity, shortage, or extreme winter weather (S. 2072), S632-S634 [10FE]

———treatment of Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities, S5173-S5176 [15JN]

———treatment of Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities (S. Con. Res. 88), S1129 [2MR]

Monuments and memorials: require sale of titanium from the National Defense Stockpile and allocate funds to the establishment of the World War II Memorial, S4554, S4555 [6JN], S4607, S4608 [7JN]

OPEC: encourage stabilization of crude oil prices, S776 [24FE]

Petroleum: decrease dependence on foreign sources through use of renewable fuels, conservation, improving efficiency, and increasing domestic energy supplies, S9331-S9333 [27SE], S10069-S10071 [6OC]

———decrease dependence on foreign sources through use of renewable fuels, conservation, improving efficiency, and increasing domestic energy supplies (S. 2557), S3957-S3962, S4005 [16MY], S4031 [17MY], S5291 [16JN], S5764-S5766, S5773-S5776 [26JN], S5875 [27JN], S8778-S8780 [20SE], S9029 [22SE], S9232-S9235 [26SE], S9350, S9351, S9375 [27SE], S10769 [19OC], S10885, S10886 [23OC], S11318-S11320 [29OC]

———decrease dependence on foreign sources through use of renewable fuels, conservation, improving efficiency, and increasing domestic energy supplies (S. 2557), motion to proceed, S9376 [27SE], S9569-S9572 [2OC], S10770 [19OC], S11104 [26OC], S11378 [30OC], S11417 [31OC]

———dependence on foreign sources, S670, S674-S676 [22FE], S846 [28FE], S1164, S1165 [6MR], S1281, S1331-S1334 [8MR], S1370, S1379 [9MR], S1620-S1624 [23MR], S1701-S1706, S1737 [27MR], S1925 [30MR], S2035 [3AP], S2282 [6AP], S2460 [10AP], S2485-S2491 [11AP], S2879 [25AP], S3220 [2MY], S4969 [12JN], S5193 [15JN], S5771-S5773 [26JN], S5873-S5876 [27JN], S6244 [30JN], S6319-S6322 [10JY], S7145-S7149 [18JY], S7487 [24JY], S7627 [26JY], S8250-S8252 [8SE], S8778-S8780 [20SE], S9208-S9211 [25SE], S10140 [10OC], S10486-S10488 [12OC], S11290-S11293 [27OC], S11409-S11413, S11419-S11421 [31OC]

———influences on rise in prices, S204-S207 [1FE]

———support increase in world crude oil supplies (S. Res. 263), S1661 [23MR], S1752, S1753 [27MR]

Power resources: establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing program for the Coastal Plain (S. 2214), S1316-S1318 [8MR]

———establish and implement competitive, environmentally sound, and job creating oil and gas leasing programs for the Coastal Plain, S1648 [23MR]

———national energy policy, S9876, S9877, S9885 [5OC]

———Northeast Home Heating Oil Reserve funding, S7027, S7028 [17JY], S7101 [18JY]

Strategic Petroleum Reserve: reauthorize, S8810 [20SE]

Taxation: incentives to encourage domestic production of oil and gas and respond to surging foreign oil imports, S1274 [8MR]

———provide tax credits to individuals aged 55 to 64 to purchase COBRA health coverage through elimination of the percentage depletion allowance for hardrock mining on Federal lands, S6788 [14JY], S7046 [17JY]

Reports

World Oil Market Demands: International Energy Agency, S9352 [27SE]

Reports filed

Support Increase in World Crude Oil Supplies: Committee on Foreign Relations (Senate) (S. Res. 263), S1391 [9MR]

Resolutions by organizations

National energy supply policies: National Association of Manufacturers, E1971 [28OC]

Tables

Daily average supply and disposition of crude oil and petroleum products, S9918 [5OC]

Exported distillate fuel, heating oil, and diesel, S9918 [5OC]

Texts of

S. 2047, Home Heating Oil Price Stability Act, S546 [9FE]

S. 2072, Home Heating Readiness Act, S632 [10FE]

S. 2094, Stable Oil Supply (SOS) Home Heating Act, S807 [24FE]

S. Con. Res. 88, treatment of Strategic Petroleum Reserve relative to anticompetitive activities, S1128 [2MR]

S. Res. 263, support increase in world crude oil supplies, S871 [28FE], S1752 [27MR]