IV 
117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 614 
Condemning the Biden administration’s Executive actions imposing a morato-
rium on oil and gas leases on Federal lands and waters, given the 
administration has also called for increased importation of crude oil 
from OPEC+ countries and refused to implement congressionally man-
dated sanctions on the builders of the Russian Nord Stream 2 pipeline. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 31, 2021 
Mr. LATTA (for himself, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana, Mr. 
MCKINLEY, Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio, Ms. HERRELL, Mr. BALDERSON, Mr. 
LONG, Mr. CURTIS, Mr. CRAWFORD, Mr. GRIFFITH, Ms. CHENEY, Mr. 
DUNCAN, 
Mr. 
PALMER, Mr. OBERNOLTE, Mr. GOHMERT, Mr. 
CAWTHORN, Mr. BUDD, Mr. MANN, Mrs. BICE of Oklahoma, and Mr. 
WEBER of Texas) submitted the following resolution; which was referred 
to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Com-
mittees on Natural Resources, Transportation and Infrastructure, and 
Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speak-
er, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the ju-
risdiction of the committee concerned 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning the Biden administration’s Executive actions 
imposing a moratorium on oil and gas leases on Federal 
lands and waters, given the administration has also 
called for increased importation of crude oil from 
OPEC+ countries and refused to implement congression-
ally mandated sanctions on the builders of the Russian 
Nord Stream 2 pipeline. 
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•HRES 614 IH 
Whereas, on January 20, 2021, President Joseph R. Biden, 
Jr., issued an ‘‘Executive Order on Protecting Public 
Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to 
Tackle the Climate Crisis’’, which revoked the Presi-
dential permit to construct, connect, operate, and main-
tain pipeline facilities at the international border of the 
United States and Canada (the Keystone XL pipeline); 
Whereas, on January 27, 2021, President Biden issued an 
‘‘Executive Order on Tackling the Climate Crisis at 
Home and Abroad’’ (EO 14008), which indefinitely sus-
pended any new oil and gas auctions on Federal land and 
water, pending a review conducted by the Department of 
the Interior; 
Whereas, on May 19, 2021, Secretary of State Antony 
Blinken, acting on behalf of the Biden administration, 
waived congressionally mandated sanctions on Nord 
Stream 2 AG and its CEO Matthias Warnig, an ally of 
Russian President Vladimir Putin; 
Whereas, on July 27, 2021, Secretary of the Interior Deb 
Haaland appeared before the Senate Committee on En-
ergy and Natural Resources and refused to specify when 
the review of new oil and gas leases would be complete; 
Whereas, on August 11, 2021, President Biden’s National 
Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, issued a statement call-
ing on the OPEC+ countries (Algeria, Angola, Equa-
torial Guinea, Gabon, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, 
the Republic of the Congo, Russia, Saudi Arabia, the 
United Arab Emirates, and Venezuela) to increase pro-
duction and exportation of crude oil; 
Whereas American consumers have seen a 40-percent in-
crease in gasoline prices since January 2021; 
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•HRES 614 IH 
Whereas it is in the national security interests of the United 
States to control its own energy supply; 
Whereas the Biden administration’s Executive actions lim-
iting the productivity of American energy producers in 
the oil and natural gas sectors are putting at risk the 
United States goal of securing its energy future; and 
Whereas the American energy sector is more heavily regu-
lated in the United States from an environmental and 
safety perspective than anywhere else in the world: Now, 
therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns the Biden administration’s Exec-
utive actions canceling the Keystone pipeline and im-
posing a moratorium on oil and gas leases on Fed-
eral lands and waters; 
(2) 
condemns 
the 
Biden 
administration’s 
waiving of congressionally mandated sanctions on of-
ficials connected with the Nord Stream 2 pipeline; 
and 
(3) calls on the Biden administration to reverse 
its costly energy agenda that is endangering Amer-
ican energy security and increasing the Nation’s reli-
ance on foreign sources of energy. 
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