Vote Series I – January 27, 2023

Lee (D-CA) – Amendment No. 84 – Conditions enactment of the bill upon the Secretary of Energy certifying that an increase in federal lands leased for production would not perpetuate environmental injustice

Payne (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 76 – States that the bill does not change the fact that communities of color and low-income communities face greater harms from climate change

Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) – Amendment No. 75 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including any tract in the Big Cypress National Preserve

Schneider (D-IL) – Amendment No. 131 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including the Great Lakes

Magaziner (D-RI) – Amendment No. 59 – States that the bill does not impact the authority of the President or the Secretary of Energy to drawdown the SPR to lower gas prices

Magaziner (D-RI) – Amendment No. 58 – Conditions enactment of the bill upon the Secretary of Energy determining that the leasing plan will not negatively affect consumers using heating oil and petroleum-based fuels

Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – Amendment No. 74 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including any lease for production to a company that has purchased an equity security of the company as listed on the national securities exchange

Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – Amendment No. 72 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including any Federal land if it would increase net carbon emissions

Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) – Amendment No. 73 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including any Federal land if it would be inconsistent with the goals of the Paris Climate Accords

Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 35 – Excludes drawdowns for the purposes of “exchanges” from requiring plan. Conditions effective date on Secretary of Energy reporting to Congress on the necessity of acting under the authority of this section

Jackson Lee (D-TX) – Amendment No. 36 – Excludes “test drawdowns” from requiring plan. Conditions the effective date of the bill upon the Secretary of Energy reporting to Congress on the necessity of acting under the authority of this section

Ross (D-NC) – Amendment No. 70 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including any tract in the Mid-Atlantic Planning Area

Casten (D-IL) – Amendment No. 66 – Prohibits fossil industry entities from producing on a lease outlined in the leasing plan unless the entity submits to Secretary of Energy a plan to reduce its “global warming pollution” by 50 percent by 2030, completely by 2050, and release less than 1 percent of methane it currently releases

Casten (D-IL) – Amendment No. 67 – Limits the leasing plan to only consider oil production (not gas), and only requires the plan if the Secretary of Energy intends to draw down more than the U.S. expects to export. Requires a report on these analyses to Congress

Casten (D-IL) – Amendment No. 68 – Limits the leasing plan to only considering oil production — not gas

Manning (D-NC) – Amendment No. 27 – Excludes any Outer Continental Shelf land from the leasing plan

Scholten (D-MI) – Amendment No. 60 – Does not require a leasing plan if the Secretary of Energy determines that delaying a drawdown would increase gas prices

Lee (D-NV) – Amendment No. 25 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including federal lands that have no or low potential for oil and gas development

Porter (D-CA) – Amendment No. 45 – Prohibits the leasing plan from providing a financial benefit for any entity that is allowed to make gross income or take a tax deduction on an oil depletion

Vasquez (D-NM) – Amendment No. 63 – Conditions enactment of the bill upon the Secretary of Energy reporting on the number, location, and owner of the unused permits to drill

Vasquez (D-NM) – Amendment No. 64 – Requires the Secretary of Energy to try to acquire petroleum products for the SPR from sources in the U.S.

Cicilline (D-RI) – Amendment No. 135 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including the Outer Continental Shelf off the coast of Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, or New York

Takano (D-NM) – Amendment No. 81 – Requires the Secretary of Energy to consider the number of approved but inactive leases and permits to drill when developing the leasing plan

Castro (D-TX) – Amendment No. 4 – Limits the leasing plan from providing oil and gas leasing on federal lands that have a high concentration of orphaned oil and gas wells

Barragan (D-CA) – Amendment No. 24 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including land within 3,200 feet of a residence, school, or hospital

Plaskett (D-VI) – Amendment No. 43 – Conditions enactment upon the Secretary of Energy certifying to Congress that the bill will not increase the average price of energy for American consumers

Perez (D-WA) – Amendment No. 79 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including tracts in the Washington/Oregon Planning Area if inclusion would adversely impact coastal fisheries

Bowman (D-NY) – Amendment No. 92 – Prohibits the leasing plan from authorizing entities who contributed to oil and gas price gouging to participate in any lease auctions

Grijalva (D-AZ) – Amendment No. 145 – Prohibits the leasing plan from including any protected public lands (National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System units, wild and scenic river system components, national conservation areas, national monuments, national recreation areas, and others

Jackson (D-NC) – Amendment No. 46 – Adds harming national security to the exceptions for the Secretary of Energy making a leasing plan when drawing down the SPR

Lieu (D-CA) – Amendment No. 61 – Does not require a leasing plan if the Secretary of Energy determines that a drawdown would result in a net profit for the government

Nickel (D-NC) – Amendment No. 77 – Allows the Secretary of Energy to not do a leasing plan after a drawdown of the SPR if it would worsen inflation

Passage – of H.R. 21, Strategic Production Response Act