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House votes to block China from buying oil from US reserves

The Republican-controlled House has voted to block oil from the country’s emergency stockpile from going to China

By MATTHEW DALY
Published - Jan 12, 2023, 03:03 PM ET
Last Updated - Jun 23, 2023, 02:35 AM EDT

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-controlled House on Thursday voted to block oil from the country's emergency stockpile from going to China.

The bill, one of the first introduced by the new GOP majority, would prohibit the Energy Department from selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to companies owned or influenced by the Chinese Communist Party. It passed easily, 331-97, with 113 Democrats joining unanimous Republicans in support.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., the new head of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the bill would help end what she called President Joe Biden's "abuse of our strategic reserves.”

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