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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. RES. 1493 

Strongly condemning Vice President Kamala Harris for championing policies 

that would exacerbate the national debt and reduce energy independence. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024 

Mr. ARRINGTON (for himself, Mr. ELLZEY, Mr. NORMAN, Ms. TENNEY, Mr. 

BALDERSON, Mr. BABIN, Mrs. MILLER of West Virginia, Mr. GUTHRIE, 

Mr. WALBERG, Mr. RESCHENTHALER, Mr. KELLY of Pennsylvania, Mr. 

FALLON, Mr. MOOLENAAR, and Mr. DIAZ-BALART) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and 

Commerce 

RESOLUTION 

Strongly condemning Vice President Kamala Harris for 

championing policies that would exacerbate the national 

debt and reduce energy independence. 

Whereas the Federal Government has a debt of $35 trillion, 

amounting to a 120-percent debt-to-gross domestic product ratio not seen since World War II; 

Whereas energy independence and security in the United 

States is critical to the national security of the United 

States; 

Whereas, in 2019, then-Senator from California, Kamala 

Harris, was an original cosponsor of S. Res. 59, a resolution recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to 


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create a Green New Deal, a proposal which, if implemented in its entirety, would cost the Federal Government $93,000,000,000,000 over 10 years; 

Whereas a July 2019 analysis found that through 2040, the 

Green New Deal would reduce the annual employment in 

the United States by 1,200,000, reduce average annual 

household incomes by $7,964, and increase annual household energy costs by 31-percent, while having a negligible 

effect on reducing global surface temperatures; 

Whereas then-Senator Harris, as a candidate for the 2020 

Democratic Presidential nomination, proposed her own 

climate plan that would cost American taxpayers approximately $10,000,000,000,000 over 10 years; 

Whereas then-Senator Harris’s climate plan called for a 100 

percent electric vehicle mandate by the year 2035, banning combustion-engine vehicles, reducing automotive 

supply employment, and becoming more reliable on battery component and critical mineral imports from China; 

Whereas then-Senator Harris’s climate plan would significantly increase energy costs for consumers in the United 

States by banning extraction on Federal lands and phasing out all oil and natural gas production, even if renewable alternatives are not readily available to make up the 

energy demand needs of the United States; 

Whereas then-Senator Harris’s climate plan would double the 

financial contributions of the United States to the international Green Climate Fund; 

Whereas then-Senator Harris’s climate plan calls for the Federal Government to acquire millions of acres of private 

land in the United States; and 


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Whereas then-Senator Harris said during a CNN town hall 

that she was ‘‘in favor of banning fracking’’: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 

2 (1) denounces past legislation cosponsored by 

3 Vice President Kamala Harris to exacerbate the na4 tional debt, threaten American energy, and national 

5 security, and significantly increase costs for con6 sumers; and 

7 (2) condemns efforts by Vice President Kamala 

8 Harris to threaten American energy independence 

9 and put the United States on a path towards fiscal 

10 insolvency. 

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