# H.R. 26 (119th): Protecting American Energy Production Act

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.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: economic_prosperity. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: energy_policy. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: executive_authority. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: federalism. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 34: On Motion to Recommit. Vote type: recommit.
Roll 35: On Passage. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill mainly limits unilateral executive action on a lawful industry, which supports constitutional process and the legislative role. It also bears on contested environmental and public-health concerns about fracking, which are prudential rather than clearly moral. Because the summary identifies a real dispute between energy production and environmental caution without any direct moral harm, the bill is best classed as mixed rather than good or evil.
Theological note: Scripture grants government a legitimate role in stewarding creation and ordering civil affairs, which bears on energy production, land use, and the proper division of authority between executive and legislative branches and between federal and state governments. The issue is relevant to stewardship of creation, to the separation of powers, and to subsidiarity. It raises no direct moral wrong on the face of the summary and turns mainly on prudential judgments about energy policy and environmental risk.

## Recorded votes

Roll 34: On Motion to Recommit. Yea 205 · Nay 207 · Other 20.
Roll 35: On Passage. Yea 226 · Nay 188 · Other 19.

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