H.Res. 257Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1231) to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil and natural gas production goal, and for other purposes.

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Sponsor: Tom Reed [R-NY-29]
Policy area: Congress
Committee: Rules Committee
Latest action: May 11, 2011 · Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

IntroducedMay 10, 2011
Passed the HouseMay 11, 2011

What the measure doesCRS summary

Sets forth the rule for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1231) to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil and natural gas production goal.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service, describing H.Res. 257 as introduced in House on May 10, 2011. It is not the text of the measure; a later amendment may have changed what it does.

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May 11, 2011Each bar: ✓ Yea from the bottom, ✕ Nay aboveMay 11, 2011

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House May 11, 2011 · the primary vote

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Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1231) to amend the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to require that each 5-year offshore oil and gas leasing program offer leasing in the areas with the most prospective oil and gas resources, to establish a domestic oil and natural gas production goal

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241 Yea 179 Nay 11 not voting

Party-line vote 6 of 420 voting members broke with their own party: 6 Democrats.

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Democratic192 members

Republican239 members

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