To provide for the development of a plan to increase oil and gas production under oil and gas leases of Federal lands under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Defense in conjunction with a drawdown of petroleum reserves from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Cost and committee reports

Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 4136.

• Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. GARDNER, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H1153):
  Article IV, Section 3, clause 2.
  Source: Congress.gov, record updated January 15, 2025 ↗

  Evidence

  Field in the Congress.gov record

  constitutionalAuthorityStatementText

  Statement length

  32 characters

  Congress.gov bill record

  H.R. 4136, 112th Congress

  Congress.gov API record

  https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/4136

  Record last updated by Congress.gov

  January 15, 2025

  PORKER copy retrieved

  September 25, 2026

  Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file

  02b77ace70e1bf2de503a73ff70fbe45b176af933da200a20dd7fc7691fa7187

  PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.

Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of January 15, 2025). Not every bill gets one.

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