85R10992 RMA-D
 
  By: Darby H.C.R. No. 84
 
 
 
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
         WHEREAS, Throughout the Obama administration, the federal
  government waged a campaign of overregulation that caused
  significant harm to the oil and gas industry in the Lone Star State;
  and
         WHEREAS, Despite protests from Texas and other oil- and
  gas-producing states, the U.S. government has implemented a litany
  of massive federal regulations, resulting in an unnavigable network
  of rules and guidelines that has produced greater economic hardship
  but insignificant environmental benefits; such policies have led
  the State of Texas to join with many other oil- and gas-producing
  states in filing more than 20 lawsuits against federal overreach;
  and
         WHEREAS, A flourishing oil and gas industry in Texas is vital
  to our nation's energy independence from foreign and hostile energy
  cartels; it is paramount that the federal government transcend
  partisan politics and stop misusing regulatory power and instead
  work with Texas to create better energy policies that will
  strengthen our economy, provide more good-paying jobs, and enhance
  our national security; now, therefore, be it
         RESOLVED, That the 85th Legislature of the State of Texas
  hereby urge Congress and the executive branch of the federal
  government to identify key federal regulations currently under the
  authority of the Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S.
  Department of the Interior, the U.S. Department of Energy, or other
  federal agencies, to determine whether they should be preserved,
  revised, delegated to state agencies, or eliminated; and, be it
  further
         RESOLVED, That the Texas Legislature encourage Congress and
  the executive branch of the federal government to work in
  conjunction with Texas on delegating the authority of federal
  energy regulations to the state's regulatory agencies, in an effort
  to mitigate the overregulation of the oil and gas industry in the
  Lone Star State; and, be it further
         RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official
  copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to
  the speaker of the House of Representatives and to the president of
  the Senate of the United States Congress, and to all members of the
  Texas delegation to Congress with the request that this resolution
  be officially entered in the Congressional Record as a memorial to
  the Congress of the United States of America.