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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.
Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.R. 1231 as passed House amended on May 17, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.
May 11, 2011Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 12, 2011
House May 12, 2011 · the primary vote
Reversing President Obama’s Offshore Moratorium Act
Passed
243 Yea 179 Nay 9 not voting
Party-line vote 30 of 422 voting members broke with their own party: 21 Democrats, 9 Republicans.
DemocratsRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
431 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. 1231 and vote against it. 35 signed when it was filed.
Organizations that named H.R. 1231 in a lobbying disclosure. Only those that cited the bill by number appear, so this is a floor, not a full list.
181 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.