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H.R. 26119th CongressEnergy
Protecting American Energy Production Act
Sponsored by Rep. August Pfluger (R-TX) · 18 active : 18 Republicans
Latest action: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Where it standsPassed House, now in the Senate10 senators score as swing votes
Passed House
- House: passedFeb 7, 2025
- Senate: next
- President: not yet
Summary
, via Congress.govProtecting American Energy Production Act
This bill prohibits the President from declaring a moratorium on the use of hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorizes the moratorium. The bill also expresses the sense of Congress that states should maintain primacy (authority) for the regulation of hydraulic fracturing for oil and natural gas production on state and private lands.
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Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a process to extract underground resources such as oil or gas from a geologic formation by injecting water, a propping agent (e.g., sand), and chemical additives into a well under enough pressure to fracture the formation.
Committees and subjects
Committees
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce · HouseReferred to
- House Committee on Natural Resources · HouseReferred to
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources · SenateReferred to
Subjects
- Congressional-executive branch relations
- Mining
- Oil and gas
- Presidents and presidential powers, Vice Presidents
- State and local government operations
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
How the Senate breaks down
- 10Swing 70–100
- 70Middle 30–70
- 20Entrenched 0–30
Members fall into . All 100 senators have enough data to score.
Key players in the Senate
Ranked by swing score, 0–100 · swing-v3, directional: only movement toward the other party counts, so members who sit further from the center than their party no longer score as swing votes.
Bars show each input from 0 to 100: ideology gap, scorecard gap, , and the . is the seat’s partisan lean, and shows how much of the input data a score has.
Similar past votes, Senate
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Cosponsors
18 activeShow all 18 cosponsors
- Erin Houchin (R-IN-9)
- Andy Barr (R-KY-6)
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5)
- Ben Cline (R-VA-6)
- Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23)
- Brandon Gill (R-TX-26)
- Craig A. Goldman (R-TX-12)
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9)
- James R. Baird (R-IN-4)
- Julie Fedorchak (R-ND-AL)
- Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6)
- Mike Haridopolos (R-FL-8)
- Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY-23)
- John J. McGuire (R-VA-5)
- Nicholas J. Begich (R-AK-AL)
- Randy K. Sr. Weber (R-TX-14)
- Brian Babin (R-TX-36)
How the swing score works
Ideology gapHow far a member’s DW-NOMINATE voting score sits from their party’s median in the same chamber.
Scorecard gapHow far their Heritage Action and LCV ratings stray from their party’s average, using the groups’ votes on similar bills where available.
Cross-pressureHow strongly their district or state leans toward the other party, from our own computed partisan lean.
Similar votesHow often they voted against their own party on earlier roll calls about this bill or similar ones.
Committee bonusMembers of the committees handling the bill decide whether it moves, so they get a boost.
Cosponsor checkThe sponsor and active cosponsors have already committed, so they drop toward entrenched.
