HR26Passed House
Protecting American Energy Production Act
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both5
Signed into Law119th
Congress
2025-01-03
Introduced
18
Cosponsors
HR
ⓘType
Sponsor
August Pfluger
Republican · TX · Representative
Votes with party: 98.9% (545 recorded votes)
Full profile: /officials/P000048
Source: Congress.gov · FEC
Cosponsors (18)
Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.
- Erin Houchin (R-IN-9)· 2025-01-07
- Andy Barr (R-KY-6)· 2025-01-09
- Michael Lawler (R-NY-17)· 2025-01-09
- Stephanie I. Bice (R-OK-5)· 2025-01-09
- Ben Cline (R-VA-6)· 2025-01-13
- Tony Gonzales (R-TX-23)· 2025-01-13
- Brandon Gill (R-TX-26)· 2025-01-22
- Craig A. Goldman (R-TX-12)· 2025-01-22
- Daniel Meuser (R-PA-9)· 2025-02-04
- James R. Baird (R-IN-4)· 2025-02-04
- Julie Fedorchak (R-ND)· 2025-02-04
- Michael A. Rulli (R-OH-6)· 2025-02-04
- Mike Haridopolos (R-FL-8)· 2025-02-04
- Nicholas A. Langworthy (R-NY-23)· 2025-02-04
- John J. McGuire III (R-VA-5)· 2025-02-05
- Nicholas J. Begich III (R-AK)· 2025-02-05
- Randy K. Weber, Sr. (R-TX-14)· 2025-02-05
- Brian Babin (R-TX-36)· 2025-02-07
Latest Action
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Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
2025-02-10
Source: Congress.gov
Plain-English Summary
Protecting 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. 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.
Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.
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Energy
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