According to a report from Just The News, the GOP-led House is expected to vote on the Strategic Production Response Act on Friday; it would expand oil production on federal lands.
Biden has threatened to veto any such legislation.
From Just The News:
The House debated the legislation on the House floor Thursday, where amendments to the bill were voted on for the first time in seven years. Lawmakers were able to defend their amendments on the House floor as each vote took place.
“This marks the first time in nearly seven years that the House will consider legislation under a modified-open rule,” read the House Rules Committee notice to House members. “Any member wishing to offer an amendment must submit their amendment into the Congressional Record for pre-printing at least one day prior to consideration.”
The goal of H.R. 21, or the Strategic Production Response Act, is to “provide for the development of a plan to increase oil and gas production under oil and gas leases of Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Defense in conjunction with a drawdown of petroleum reserves from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.”
“Except in the case of a severe energy supply interruption … the Secretary may not execute the first drawdown of petroleum products in the Reserve,” according to the bill, “… until the Secretary has developed a plan to increase the percentage of Federal lands (including submerged lands of the Outer Continental Shelf) under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Defense leased for oil and gas production by the same percentage as the percentage of petroleum in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve that is to be drawn down in that first and subsequent drawdowns.”
More over at Just The News:
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