Bill Passes to Increase American Energy Production

Statement

Yesterday, I continued my long-standing efforts to expand domestic energy production by joining with 265 of my colleagues to pass H.R. 1230, the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act. H.R. 1230 requires the Secretary of the Interior to conduct oil and natural gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and offshore Virginia that have been delayed or cancelled by the Obama Administration.

Gas prices seem to be rising faster and faster every single day, and yet the bureaucrats and Administration officials are still standing in the way of common-sense ideas to expand our American energy production and grow American jobs. I believe we need to open up more areas for exploration, not less. People in Michigan and throughout the country are demanding that we do something about energy, and my colleagues in the House and I are responding.

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