House bill · 112th Congress · Did not become law
To require the Secretary of the Interior to assemble a team of technical, policy, and financial experts to address the energy needs of the insular areas of the United States and the Freely Associated States through the development of action plans aimed at reducing reliance on imported fossil fuels and increasing use of indigenous clean-energy resources, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Donna Christensen D-VIWhere it went
- IntroducedFeb 9, 2011
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Feb 18, 2011 — Referred to the Subcommittee on Energy and Power.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 579.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mrs. CHRISTENSEN, as printed in the Congressional Record (Page H600):Article I, Section 8 and Article IV, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States grant Congress the authority to enact this bill.Source: Congress.gov, record updated January 15, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 136 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 579, 112th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/112/hr/579
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 15, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 25, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
4 cosponsors — 4 Democrats
0 of 4 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Madeleine Bordallo (D-GU), Eni Faleomavaega (D-AS), Pedro Pierluisi (D-PR), Gregorio Sablan (D-MP).
More from the sponsor
Other 112th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Donna Christensen.
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- H.R. 1394 (112th) Lung Cancer Mortality Reduction Act of 2011
- H.R. 5566 (112th) Medicaid Payment Fairness to the Territories Act of 2012
- H.R. 2448 (112th) To establish the St. Croix National Heritage Area, and for other purposes.
- H.R. 4316 (112th) To amend chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974 to include Guam, the Virgin Islands of the United States, American Samoa, and the…
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 26, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.