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(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.)
Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act - (Sec. 2) Directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct specified proposed offshore oil and gas lease sales as follows: (1) lease sale 216 in the Central Gulf of Mexico within four months after enactment of this Act; (2) lease sale 218 in the Western Gulf of Mexico within eight months after enactment of this Act; (3) lease sale 220 on the Outer Continental Shelf offshore Virginia within one year after enactment of this Act; and (4) lease sale 222 in the Central Gulf of Mexico no later than June 1, 2012.
(Sec. 4) Prohibits the Secretary from making any Offshore Virginia tract available for leasing if it would conflict with military operations.
Declares that, for purposes of such proposed lease sales, specified Environmental Impact Statements are deemed to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1230 as passed House without amendment on May 5, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
May 5, 2011Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 5, 2011
House May 5, 2011 · the primary vote
Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act
Passed
266 Yea 149 Nay 17 not voting
Party-line vote 35 of 415 voting members broke with their own party: 33 Democrats, 2 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
432 members on this roll call, from the official House record. Party majorities need at least five voting members, so an independent never counts as breaking with a party.
Signing on is not a vote: a member can cosponsor H.R. 1230 and vote against it. 32 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1230 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
172 disclosures name this measure. Retrieved from LDA.gov on 2026-10-05. Senate Office of Public Records cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from LDA.gov.