H.R. 1231 · 112th Congress

Reversing President Obama's Offshore Moratorium Act

Stage
Passed a chamber
Sponsor
Doc Hastings
Introduced
2011-03-29
Latest action
2011-05-17 · Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 52.

Action history

  1. 2011-05-17Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 52.
  2. 2011-05-16Received in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
  3. 2011-05-12Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  4. 2011-05-12On passage Passed by recorded vote: 243 - 179 (Roll no. 320).
  5. 2011-05-12On motion to recommit with instructions Failed by recorded vote: 180 - 243 (Roll no. 319).
  6. 2011-05-12The previous question on the motion to recommit with instructions was ordered without objection.
  7. 2011-05-12DEBATE - The House proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Holt motion to recommit with instructions. The instructions contained in the motion seek to require the bill to be reported back to the House with an amendment to require each oil and gas leasing program in the underlying bill to specify that all oil and natural gas produced from such leases under the program, is offered for sale in the United States and not exported. It would also require the Secretary of Interior, in developing a 5-year oil and gas leasing program, to seek to reduce the number of nonproducing offshore oil and gas leases by 50 percent by 2017.
  8. 2011-05-12Mr. Holt moved to recommit with instructions to Natural Resources.
  9. 2011-05-12The House adopted the amendment as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
  10. 2011-05-12The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 1231.
  11. 2011-05-12The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
  12. 2011-05-12Considered as unfinished business.
  13. 2011-05-11Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 1231 as unfinished business.
  14. 2011-05-11On motion that the Committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
  15. 2011-05-11Mr. Pearce moved that the Committee rise.
  16. 2011-05-11POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Inslee amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Inslee demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption until a time to be announced.
  17. 2011-05-11DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 257, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Inslee amendment.
  18. 2011-05-11POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Thompson (CA) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Thompson (CA) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption until a time to be announced.
  19. 2011-05-11DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 257, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Thompson (CA) amendment.
  20. 2011-05-11POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Brown(FL) amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Brown (FL) demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption until a time to be announced.
  21. 2011-05-11DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 257, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Brown amendment.
  22. 2011-05-11POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Tsongas amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Ms. Tsongas demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption until a time to be announced.
  23. 2011-05-11DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 257, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Tsongas amendment.
  24. 2011-05-11POSTPONED PROCEEDINGS - At the conclusion of debate on the Keating amendment, the Chair put the question on adoption of the amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Keating demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the question of adoption until a time to be announced.
  25. 2011-05-11DEBATE - Pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 257, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 10 minutes of debate on the Keating amendment.