The amendment failed to clear the Republican-led House Natural Resources Committee as members convened Tuesday to draft their working plan for the 118th Congress.In the document, lawmakers outlined priorities for the coming year, including examining the lack of federal lands leased for oil and gas development under the Biden administration.
Ahead of the document's release, Ocasio-Cortez, the top Democrat on the Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee, introduced an amendment that would have required members of the committee to collect “public health data and other impacts of new drilling on federal lands" before authorizing new oil and gas development.
She stressed her amendment would be neutral and allow for studies that consider both the positive and negative impacts of drilling.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER
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A better one......lets link the US Congress and the Democratic party's actions to Americans health risk....they would be shut down overnite AOC
She is another 'say anything' Democrat.
The Left wants to cripple certain industries whose activities it believes are impediments to its implementing the agenda,that it envisages will produce the conditions which it deem it necessary for Americans to seek the assistance & direction of govt out of desperation arising