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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1850 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To revise the authority provided to the President to impose export licensing |
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| 6 | 6 | | requirements or other restrictions on the export of crude oil from the |
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| 7 | 7 | | United States, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | MARCH5, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mr. A |
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| 11 | 11 | | RRINGTON(for himself, Mr. WEBERof Texas, Mr. FALLON, Mr. |
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| 12 | 12 | | N |
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| 13 | 13 | | EWHOUSE, and Mr. CRENSHAW) introduced the following bill; which |
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| 14 | 14 | | was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs |
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| 15 | 15 | | A BILL |
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| 16 | 16 | | To revise the authority provided to the President to impose |
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| 17 | 17 | | export licensing requirements or other restrictions on |
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| 18 | 18 | | the export of crude oil from the United States, and |
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| 19 | 19 | | for other purposes. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 21 | 21 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 22 | 22 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 23 | 23 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Continuing Robust and 4 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Uninhibited Drilling and Exporting Act’’ or the ‘‘CRUDE 5 |
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| 25 | 25 | | Act’’. 6 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •HR 1850 IH |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. CRUDE OIL EXPORT LICENSING REQUIREMENTS 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | AND OTHER RESTRICTIONS. 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | Section 101(d)(1) of division O of the Consolidated 3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | Appropriations Act, 2016 (42 U.S.C. 6212a(d)(1)) is 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | amended— 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (1) by amending subparagraph (A) to read as 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | follows: 7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(A)(i) the Secretary of Defense, the Sec-8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | retary of Energy, and the Secretary of Com-9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | merce jointly find and report to the President 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | and to the Congress that— 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ‘‘(I) the export of crude oil pursuant 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | to this Act has caused sustained material 13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | oil supply shortages or sustained oil prices 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | significantly above world market levels that 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | are directly attributable to the export of 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | crude oil produced in the United States; 17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | and 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | ‘‘(II) those supply shortages or price 19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | increases have caused or are likely to cause 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | sustained material adverse employment ef-21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | fects in the United States; and 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | ‘‘(ii) the President declares a national 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | emergency based on the findings of a report 24 |
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| 53 | 53 | | under clause (i) and formally notices the dec-25 |
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| 56 | 56 | | •HR 1850 IH |
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| 57 | 57 | | laration of a national emergency in the Federal 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Register; or’’; 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘; or’’ and 3 |
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| 60 | 60 | | inserting a period; and 4 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (3) by striking subparagraph (C). 5 |
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