House Passes Bill Blocking Strategic Petroleum Reserve Exports to China

The House of Representatives has approved a measure that would block exports from the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China.
The legislation passed 331–97, with 113 Democrats siding with Republicans on Jan. 12 in backing the “Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act,” or H.R. 22.
The proposal would prohibit “the Department of Energy (DOE) from selling petroleum products (e.g., crude oil) from the SPR to any entity that is under the ownership, control, or influence of the Chinese Communist Party,” according to a summary from the Congressional Research Service. “Further, DOE must require as a condition of any sale of crude oil from the SPR that the oil not be exported to China.”…}