“Committed to work to restore American energy independence by expanding Louisiana oil and gas production.”
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All four cited sources are reachable and corroborate genuine legislative leadership toward this promise. Kennedy is the lead sponsor/author of S.J.Res.11 (119th Congress), a Congressional Review Act resolution repealing the Biden-era BOEM "Protection of Marine Archaeological Resources" rule that imposed archaeological-survey burdens on offshore oil and gas leaseholders on the Outer Continental Shelf (the Louisiana Gulf). The Senate passed it 54-44 on Feb. 25, 2025 (Roll Call 92, verified), the House passed it 221-202, and it was signed into law as Public Law 119-3 on March 14, 2025 (verified via Congress.gov and the DOI release). This is authorship plus shepherding to an enacted law — not merely supporting votes — which clears the CHAMPIONED bar of real leadership (sponsored/authored/led). Each cited quote was confirmed in its source: the Kennedy "burdensome regulations" quote and the "small and independent operators account for one-third of all oil production in the Gulf" quote both appear (the latter reads "Gulf of America" in full, a trivial truncation, not a fabrication); the DOI "667 million barrels ... approximately 14% of all domestic oil production" figure appears verbatim; the Senate roll call shows the 54-44 passage of S.J.Res.11. Confidence held at 0.85 (not higher) because the enacted law is deregulatory — it removes a barrier to offshore production rather than directly mandating or measurably increasing Louisiana output — and no source quantifies a production increase attributable to Kennedy's actions. That calibration is appropriate; it does not overstate the evidence.
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