H. Res. 987 
In the House of Representatives, U. S., 
March 21, 2024. 
Whereas President Joe Biden and his administration have 
proposed and finalized regulations that increase the cost 
of energy for domestic consumers, hamper domestic pro-
duction of energy, and increase reliance on foreign adver-
saries for energy needs; 
Whereas then-candidate Joe Biden is quoted as saying, ‘‘I 
will end fossil fuels.’’; 
Whereas decreasing domestic production of fossil fuels does 
not prevent the fuels from being produced globally, but 
instead increases the United States reliance on other 
countries for its energy needs; 
Whereas the United States is reliant on China and other for-
eign adversaries for many of the minerals necessary for 
renewable energy development; 
Whereas the Biden administration has blocked domestic min-
eral development despite the massive increase in demand 
for these minerals; 
Whereas the United States became the global leader in 
liquified natural gas exports for the first time in 2023; 
Whereas, on January 26, 2024, the Biden administration an-
nounced guidance that would prohibit liquified natural
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gas exports and permitting for export facilities under sec-
tion 3 of the Natural Gas Act (15 U.S.C. 717b); 
Whereas, under President Biden, gasoline prices reached a 
record-breaking high in 2022, with prices soaring to a 
nationwide average of over $4 a gallon and nearly $5 for 
diesel; 
Whereas gas prices have increased due to President Biden’s 
policies, affecting families and small businesses who 
struggle to make ends meet; 
Whereas, in May 2023, it was calculated that nearly 
20,000,000 households in the United States were behind 
on their utility bills because of rising energy prices; 
Whereas energy prices increased roughly 37.2 percent in 
President Biden’s first 26 months in office, which is the 
largest increase of any of the last 7 Presidents; 
Whereas President Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline 
on his first day in office, preventing over 11,000 jobs, 
hundreds of thousands of barrels of oil per day, and mil-
lions in revenue; 
Whereas the Biden administration illegally canceled leases in 
the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, even though the 
leases were mandated under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act; 
Whereas the Biden administration added extraction restric-
tions to 13,000,000 acres of the National Petroleum Re-
serve–Alaska; 
Whereas the Biden administration canceled 3 proposed lease 
sales in the Gulf of Mexico; 
Whereas President Trump held 9 offshore lease sales and 
President Obama held 20;
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Whereas the Biden administration has proposed numerous 
antifossil fuel policies that restrict Federal land develop-
ment causing companies to cease investment in research, 
development, and exploration; 
Whereas the Biden administration implemented a 20-year 
mining moratorium on 225,000 acres of the Superior Na-
tional Forest in northern Minnesota; 
Whereas the Biden administration continues to restrict min-
eral extraction in areas including Chaco Canyon, Black 
Hills National Forest, and the Thompson Divide; 
Whereas, in 2022, more than one-third of Americans say they 
reduced or skipped basic expenses, such as medicine or 
food, to pay an energy bill; 
Whereas President Biden issued Executive Order 14008 on 
his first day in office, which halted all new oil and nat-
ural gas leasing on Federal lands, violating the Mineral 
Leasing Act, which requires the Department of the Inte-
rior to hold quarterly lease sales; 
Whereas the Biden administration did not hold an onshore 
lease sale until June 2022, and the first sale excluded 
nearly 80 percent of eligible lands while instituting a 50- 
percent royalty increase; 
Whereas, in fiscal year 2022, the first full fiscal year of the 
Biden administration, the Bureau of Land Management 
approved an average of 233 drilling permits per month; 
Whereas, in contrast, the Bureau of Land Management was 
approving nearly 400 drilling permits monthly in fiscal 
year 2020; 
Whereas the Biden administration has held only 18 lease 
sales over 36 months in office;
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Whereas the Biden administration has leased roughly 
232,000 acres bringing in roughly $180,000,000 in Fed-
eral funding, approximately one-tenth of the acreage and 
revenue secured by the Trump administration; 
Whereas, over the same time period, the Trump administra-
tion had held 82 lease sales, leasing 3,700,000 acres and 
bringing in over $1,700,000,000 for taxpayers. 
Whereas the Bureau of Land Management proposed a rule 
titled ‘‘Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royal-
ties, and Resource Conservation’’ (87 Fed. Reg. 73588) 
which aims to further regulate natural gas emissions 
from oil and natural gas production on Federal lands; 
Whereas the Bureau of Land Management issued Instruc-
tional Memoranda that restrict the rights of existing 
leaseholders, ignore statutory mandates, and will limit 
acreage in future sales; 
Whereas the Biden administration proposed the rule titled 
‘‘Conservation and Landscape Health’’ (88 Fed. Reg. 
19583) that would illegally elevate conservation as a mul-
tiple use under the Federal Land Management Policy Act 
of 1976; 
Whereas the Biden administration has proposed a rule titled 
‘‘Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process’’ (88. Fed. 
Reg. 47562) that would establish preference criteria to 
limit oil and gas leasing on Federal lands, while increas-
ing royalty and bonding rates for oil and gas producers 
on Federal lands; and 
Whereas the Biden administration proposed numerous sup-
plemental environmental impact statements for resource 
management plans across Western States that would lock
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up millions of acres of Federal lands from resource devel-
opment: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) denounces the harmful anti-American energy 
policies of the Biden administration; 
(2) denounces the irrational and unpredictable Fed-
eral lands policies of the Biden administration; 
(3) condemns the energy crisis plaguing families, 
businesses, and Americans around the country that has 
been caused by the Biden administration; and 
(4) encourages the domestic production of reliable 
and affordable energy generation sources. 
Attest: 
Clerk.