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Issue Position: Supporting Energy Independence

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By: Ted Cruz
By: Ted Cruz
Date: Jan. 1, 2012
Issues: Energy

Ted Cruz helped lead the fight against President Obama's Moratorium on Offshore Drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

Authored an amicus brief on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and a diverse coalition of 29 Gulf Coast chambers of commerce and industry groups in Hornbeck Offshore Services v. Salazar, in opposition to the Obama Interior Department's moratorium on offshore exploration in the Gulf of Mexico. One week later, the Fifth Circuit agreed, and ruled against the moratorium.


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