Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act
Latest action · May 17, 2011 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 52.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedMar 29, 2011
- Passed HouseMay 12, 2011
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to make available for leasing and to conduct lease sales including: (1) at least 50% of the available unleased acreage within each outer Continental Shelf (OCS) planning area considered to have the largest undiscovered, technically recoverable oil and gas resources (on a total btu basis) based upon the most recent national geologic assessment of the OCS, with an emphasis on offering the most geologically prospective parts of the planning area; and (2) any state subdivision of an OCS planning area that the Governor of such state requests be made available for leasing.
Directs the Secretary, in the 2012-2017 5-year oil and gas leasing program, to make available for leasing OCS planning areas that: (1) are estimated to contain more than 2.5 billion barrels of oil; or (2) are estimated to contain more than 7.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
Directs the Secretary, in developing a 5-year oil and gas leasing program, to determine a domestic strategic production goal for the development of oil and natural gas. Makes the production goal for the 2012-2017 5-year oil and gas leasing program an increase by 2027 in daily production of at least: (1) 3 million barrels of oil, and (2) 10 billion cubic feet of natural gas.
Recorded votes 9
Newest first. Open one to see how every member voted.
| Roll call | Question | Result | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| House 320 | On Passage | Passed243–179 | May 12, 2011 |
| House 319 | On Motion to Recommit with Instructions | Failed180–243 | May 12, 2011 |
| House 318 | On Agreeing to the Amendment | Failed160–256 | May 12, 2011 |
| House 317 | On Agreeing to the Amendment | Failed156–263 | May 12, 2011 |
| House 316 | On Agreeing to the Amendment | Failed134–279 | May 12, 2011 |
Cosponsors 69
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 29, 2011 to May 2, 2011, with 35 there on the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-TX | Bill Flores | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-OH | Bill Johnson | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-FL | Bill Posey | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-MO | Billy Long | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-TN | Charles J. "Chuck" Fleischmann | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-LA | Charles W. Boustany, Jr. | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-WY | Cynthia M. Lummis | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-NV | Dean Heller | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-FL | Dennis A. Ross | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-CA | Devin Nunes | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-CO | Doug Lamborn | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-VA | E. Scott Rigell | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-CA | Jeff Denham | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-SC | Jeff Duncan | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
| R-LA | Jeffrey M. Landry | Original | Mar 29, 2011 |
Actions 51
Everything that happened, newest first.
- May 17, 2011Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 52.
- May 16, 2011Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
- May 12, 2011Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H3237-3242)
- May 12, 2011DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Holt motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to require each oil and gas leasing program in the underlying bill to specify that all oil and natural gas produced from such leases under the program, is offered for sale in the United States and not exported. It would also require the Secretary of Interior, in developing a 5-year oil and gas leasing program, to seek to reduce the number of nonproducing offshore oil and gas leases by 50 percent by 2017.
- May 12, 2011Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Related bills 3
Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.
| Bill | Title | Relationship | Latest action |
|---|---|---|---|
| HRES 257 | Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1231) to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a | Procedurally related | May 11, 2011 |
| S 2365 | WEST Act | Related bill | Apr 25, 2012 |
| HR 3410 | Energy Security and Transportation Jobs Act | Related bill | Feb 9, 2012 |
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Public Lands and Natural Resources.
Text 4
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- May 17, 2011Placed on Calendar Senate
- May 12, 2011Engrossed in House
- May 2, 2011Reported in House
- Mar 29, 2011Introduced in House
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