Vote vote vote the presiding officer are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote . If not, the yeas are 74, the nays are 18. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Portman mr. President . The presiding officer the senator for ohio. Mr. Portman i would like to talk today about a couple topics. First i want to thank my colleagues on the Senate Commerce committee for approving legislation very recently to rename the nasa plumbrook station in ohio after a true american hero, the lateneal armstrong. I ask that it legislation be taken up and we get it passed. There is an identical bill in the house and we hope to get both of them to the president for his signature. It is a stateoftheart testing facility near sandusky, ohio. It is doing a lot of the testing right now both for nasa and some privatesector companies. It is part of the nasaglenn complex. It is an impressive operation. The one that is most impressive right now is the artifice project. This is to put astronauts
Offshore areas. Secondly, we will explore how that is distributed and shared with state, local, and tribal governments. Then we will hear testimonies that will both revenue sharing from onshore renewable and onshore developments. Both bills under consideration are sponsored by members of this committee. Senator cassidy, introducing in s14 the coastal act, and senator mcsally, introducing the energy reproducing act. Thank you for introducing legislation that would bring revenuesharing for coastal producing states into parity with onshore development. Congress lay the foundation for offshore revenuesharing through the passage of the gulf of Mexico Energy security act in 2006. At that time the bill did not include alaska. The coastal act that we are considering now would establish a revenuesharing program that would include alaska and, at the current time, our offshore production is pretty minimal and therefore any returns to the state are equally minimal. It is important to address this
Federal lands, indian lands, good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. First, we will examine federal revenues generated from Energy Development on federal lands, indian lands, and federal offshore areas. Secondly, we will explore how that is distributed and shared with state, local, and tribal governments. Then we will hear from onshore renewable and onshore developments. Both bills under consideration are sponsored by members of this committee. Senator cassidy, introducing in 2018 the coastal act, and senator mcsally, introducing the energy reproducing act. Thank you for introducing legislation that would bring revenuesharing for coastal producing states into parity with onshore development. Congress lay the foundation for offshore revenuesharing through the passage of the gulf of Mexico Energy securing act in 2006. At that time the bill did not include alaska. The coastal act that we are considering now would establish a revenuesharing program that would include alas
Federal lands, indian lands, good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. First, we will examine federal revenues generated from Energy Development on federal lands, indian lands, and federal offshore areas. Secondly, we will explore how that is distributed and shared with state, local, and tribal governments. Then we will hear from onshore renewable and onshore developments. Both bills under consideration are sponsored by members of this committee. Senator cassidy, introducing in 2018 the coastal act, and senator mcsally, introducing the energy reproducing act. Thank you for introducing legislation that would bring revenuesharing for coastal producing states into parity with onshore development. Congress lay the foundation for offshore revenuesharing through the passage of the gulf of Mexico Energy securing act in 2006. At that time the bill did not include alaska. The coastal act that we are considering now would establish a revenuesharing program that would include alas
Good morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. First, we will examine federal revenues generated from Energy Development on federal lands, indian lands, and federal offshore areas. Secondly, we will explore how that is distributed and shared local, and tribal governments. Then we will hear from onshore renewable and onshore developments. Both bills under consideration are sponsored by members of this committee. Senator cassidy, introducing in 2018 the coastal act, and senator mcsally, introducing the reproducing act. Thank you for introducing legislation that would bring revenuesharing for coastal producing states into parity with onshore development. Congress lay the foundation for offshore revenuesharing through the passage of the gulf of Mexico Energy securing act in 2006. At that time the bill did not include alaska. The coastal act that we are considering now would establish a revenuesharing program that thed include alaska and, at current time, our offshore production