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S. 953Offshore Production and Safety Act of 2011
- Sponsor
- Mitch McConnell [R-KY]
- Cosponsors
- 22 · 22 Republicans
- Policy area
- Energy
- Latest action
- May 18, 2011 · Motion to proceed to consideration of measure, under the order of 5/16/2011, not having achieved 60 votes in the affirmative, withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S3086)
- IntroducedMay 11, 2011
- Passed the SenateNot yet reached
- Passed the HouseNot yet reached
- Sent to the PresidentNot yet reached
- Became lawNot yet reached
Offshore Production and Safety Act of 2011 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to require an exploration plan to incorporate a third-party reviewed response plan which describes the means and timeline to contain and terminate an ongoing discharge of oil.
Requires the Secretary to certify, as a prerequisite to plan approval, the technological feasibility of methods proposed to be used under a response plan, as demonstrated by the potential lessee through simulation, demonstration, or other means.
Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE), acting through the DOE Office of Science, to use specified funds to study, in collaboration with the DOE Office of Fossil Energy, means of improving prevention methodologies and technological responses to oil spills and mitigating the effects of oil spills on natural habitat.
Requires the DOE Secretary, as part of the study, to convene a task force to assess: (1) such methodologies and technological response to the blowout and explosion of the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater Horizon on April 20, 2010, and the resulting hydrocarbon releases into the environment; as well as (2) the adequacy of existing technologies for prevention and responses to deep water oil spills.
Directs the Comptroller General to study existing federal capabilities and legal authorities to prevent and respond to oil spills.
Instructs the Secretary to conduct certain oil and gas lease sales within specified deadlines.
States that such lease sales are considered to satisfy the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969.
Prohibits the Secretary from issuing a permit without ensuring that the proposed drilling operations meet all: (1) critical safety system requirements, including blowout prevention; and (2) oil spill response and containment requirements. Requires the Secretary to decide whether to issue a permit within 30 days after receiving an application. Allows up to two 15-day extensions of such deadline. Prescribes implementation procedures.
Imposes a deadline for a final decision on certain permit applications under existing leases.
Directs the Secretary to extend by one year the terms of certain oil and gas leases (covered leases) for the Gulf of Mexico outer Continental Shelf (OCS) region.
Establishes any district court within the Fifth Circuit as the exclusive venue for civil actions relating to covered energy projects on leased federal land in the Gulf of Mexico unless there is no proper venue within that circuit.
Bars such a civil action unless it is filed within 60 days after the final federal action to which it relates.
Senate May 18, 2011
On the Motion to Proceed
Motion to Proceed to the Consideration of S. 953
Motion to Proceed Rejected
42 Yea 57 Nay 1 not voting
Party-line vote 5 of 99 voting members broke with their own party: 5 Republicans.
How the chamber split
DemocratsIndependentsOtherRepublicansFilled: YeaRing: NayGrey: not voting or present
Showing 100 of 100 members
- DAkakaHI · DemocraticNay
- RAlexanderTN · RepublicanYea
- RAyotteNH · RepublicanYea
- RJohn BarrassoWY · RepublicanYea
- DBaucusMT · DemocraticNot voting
- DBegichAK · DemocraticNay
- DMichael F. BennetCO · DemocraticNay
- DBingamanNM · DemocraticNay
- DRichard BlumenthalCT · DemocraticNay
- RBluntMO · RepublicanYea
- RJohn BoozmanAR · RepublicanYea
- DBoxerCA · DemocraticNay
- RBrownMA · RepublicanYea
- DBrownOH · DemocraticNay
- RBurrNC · RepublicanYea
- DMaria CantwellWA · DemocraticNay
- DCardinMD · DemocraticNay
- DCarperDE · DemocraticNay
- DCaseyPA · DemocraticNay
- RChamblissGA · RepublicanYea
- RCoatsIN · RepublicanYea
- RCoburnOK · RepublicanYea
- RCochranMS · RepublicanYea
- RSusan M. CollinsME · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- DConradND · DemocraticNay
- DChristopher A. CoonsDE · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- RCorkerTN · RepublicanYea
- RJohn CornynTX · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RMike CrapoID · RepublicanYea
- RDeMintSC · RepublicanBroke with party (Republican majority)Nay
- DRichard J. DurbinIL · DemocraticNay
- REnziWY · RepublicanYea
- DFeinsteinCA · DemocraticNay
- DFrankenMN · DemocraticNay
- DKirsten E. GillibrandNY · DemocraticNay
- RGrahamSC · RepublicanYea
- RChuck GrassleyIA · RepublicanYea
- DHaganNC · DemocraticNay
- DHarkinIA · DemocraticNay
- RHatchUT · RepublicanYea
- RHellerNV · RepublicanYea
- RJohn HoevenND · RepublicanYea
- RHutchisonTX · RepublicanYea
- RInhofeOK · RepublicanYea
- DInouyeHI · DemocraticNay
- RIsaksonGA · RepublicanYea
- RJohannsNE · RepublicanYea
- DJohnsonSD · DemocraticNay
- RRon JohnsonWI · RepublicanYea
- DKerryMA · DemocraticNay
- RKirkIL · RepublicanYea
- DAmy KlobucharMN · DemocraticNay
- DKohlWI · DemocraticNay
- RKylAZ · RepublicanYea
- DLandrieuLA · DemocraticNay
- DLautenbergNJ · DemocraticNay
- DLeahyVT · DemocraticNay
- RMike LeeUT · RepublicanBroke with party (Republican majority)Nay
- DLevinMI · DemocraticNay
- OLiebermanCT · Other partyNay
- RLugarIN · RepublicanYea
- DManchinWV · DemocraticNay
- RMcCainAZ · RepublicanYea
- DMcCaskillMO · DemocraticNay
- RMitch McConnellKY · RepublicanYea
- DMenendezNJ · DemocraticNay
- DJeff MerkleyOR · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- DMikulskiMD · DemocraticNay
- RJerry MoranKS · RepublicanYea
- RLisa MurkowskiAK · RepublicanYea
- DPatty MurrayWA · DemocraticNay
- DNelsonFL · DemocraticNay
- DNelsonNE · DemocraticNay
- RRand PaulKY · RepublicanYea
- RPortmanOH · RepublicanYea
- DPryorAR · DemocraticNay
- DJack ReedRI · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- DReidNV · DemocraticNay
- RJames E. RischID · RepublicanRunning in 2026Yea
- RRobertsKS · RepublicanYea
- DRockefellerWV · DemocraticNay
- RRubioFL · RepublicanYea
- IBernard SandersVT · IndependentNay
- DCharles E. SchumerNY · DemocraticNay
- RSessionsAL · RepublicanYea
- DJeanne ShaheenNH · DemocraticNay
- RShelbyAL · RepublicanBroke with party (Republican majority)Nay
- RSnoweME · RepublicanBroke with party (Republican majority)Nay
- DStabenowMI · DemocraticNay
- DTesterMT · DemocraticNay
- RJohn ThuneSD · RepublicanYea
- RToomeyPA · RepublicanYea
- DUdallCO · DemocraticNay
- DUdallNM · DemocraticNay
- RVitterLA · RepublicanBroke with party (Republican majority)Nay
- DMark R. WarnerVA · DemocraticRunning in 2026Nay
- DWebbVA · DemocraticNay
- DSheldon WhitehouseRI · DemocraticNay
- RRoger F. WickerMS · RepublicanYea
- DRon WydenOR · DemocraticNay
100 members on this roll call, from the official Senate 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 S. 953 and vote against it. 0 signed when it was filed.