IV 
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 fol-
lowing 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 prod-
uct 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 resolu-
tion recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to 
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•HRES 1493 IH 
create a Green New Deal, a proposal which, if imple-
mented in its entirety, would cost the Federal Govern-
ment $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 house-
hold 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 approxi-
mately $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, ban-
ning combustion-engine vehicles, reducing automotive 
supply employment, and becoming more reliable on bat-
tery component and critical mineral imports from China; 
Whereas then-Senator Harris’s climate plan would signifi-
cantly increase energy costs for consumers in the United 
States by banning extraction on Federal lands and phas-
ing out all oil and natural gas production, even if renew-
able 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 inter-
national Green Climate Fund; 
Whereas then-Senator Harris’s climate plan calls for the Fed-
eral Government to acquire millions of acres of private 
land in the United States; and 
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•HRES 1493 IH 
Whereas then-Senator Harris said during a CNN town hall 
that she was ‘‘in favor of banning fracking’’: Now, there-
fore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) denounces past legislation cosponsored by 
Vice President Kamala Harris to exacerbate the na-
tional debt, threaten American energy, and national 
security, and significantly increase costs for con-
sumers; and 
(2) condemns efforts by Vice President Kamala 
Harris to threaten American energy independence 
and put the United States on a path towards fiscal 
insolvency. 
Æ 
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