H.Res. 245Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1229) to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the safe and timely production of American energy resources from the Gulf of Mexico, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1230) to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales, and for other purposes.

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Sponsor: Rob Bishop [R-UT-01]
Policy area: Congress
Committee: Rules Committee
Latest action: May 5, 2011 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

IntroducedMay 4, 2011
Passed the HouseMay 5, 2011

What the measure doesCRS summary

Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1229) to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the safe and timely production of American energy resources from the Gulf of Mexico, and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1230) to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.Res. 245 as introduced in House on May 4, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

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May 5, 2011Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 5, 2011

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House May 5, 2011 · the primary vote

On Ordering the Previous Question

Providing for consideration of H.R. 1229, to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to facilitate the safe and timely production of American energy resources from the Gulf of Mexico; and for consideration of H.R. 1230, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct certain offshore oil and gas lease sales

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241 Yea 171 Nay 20 not voting

Party-line vote 7 of 412 voting members broke with their own party: 7 Democrats.

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All members432 members

Democratic192 members

Republican240 members

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