H.R. 26House bill · 119th CongressIn the SenateEnergy

Protecting American Energy Production Act

Sponsored byAugust PflugerR-TX-11Introduced Jan 3, 2025Full text on congress.gov ↗

Latest action (Feb 10, 2025) Received in the Senate and Read twice and on Energy and Natural Resources.

What it does

Congressional Research Service, Jan 3, 2025

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.

Face Value

as passed the House
100Narrow

How much of this bill its name accounts for.

  • Every bill starts at100
  • Nothing counted against it: one area of law, and short enough that length doesn't register.

Face Value measures reach, not honesty. A big bill can be accurately named, and a low score is not an accusation — it means the contents reach further than any short title could describe. Count it yourself ↗ How this is worked out

What Congress did

2 recorded
  • decisive vote

    House · Feb 7, 2025

    Whether the bill passes the House. This is the vote most people mean.

    226188

    Passed

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  • On

    House · Feb 7, 2025

    The minority party's last attempt to change the bill by sending it back to committee. It usually fails and is usually about forcing an awkward vote.

    205207

    Failed

    Every vote →

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