H.R. 1949 · 119th Congress · Energy
Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025
How the House voted
Yea from the left, nay from the right, each side by party
House · Nov 20, 2025
Roll call ↗217
188
Passed the House.
Passed the House on November 20, 2025.
Latest action: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 286
- IntroducedMar 6, 2025
- CommitteeSep 11, 2025
- Passed HouseNov 20, 2025
- Passed Senate
- Became law
On the record
- Cosponsors
- 43
- all Republicans
- House committee
- Energy and Commerce
- Lobbying
- At least 14
- organizations named it2025 Q1 to 2026 Q3
What it does
The bill strips out the separate federal review that natural gas exports and imports now go through and declares them to be in the public interest by law.
How each member voted
The House roll call, passed the House, November 20, 2025
Yea unless marked
R · House · AL-4
R · House · MO-4
R · House · GA-12
The bill strips out the separate federal review that natural gas exports and imports now go through and declares them to be in the public interest by law. It amends section 3 of the Natural Gas Act by striking subsections (a) through (c) and giving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission exclusive authority to approve or deny applications for siting, construction, expansion, or operation of any facility to export natural gas from or import natural gas to the United States, including LNG terminals. In deciding those applications, the Commission is directed to deem the exportation or importation of natural gas to be consistent with the public interest, removing the case-by-case public interest determination that currently applies. The bill preserves the President's authority under the Constitution, the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, the National Emergencies Act, the Energy Policy and Conservation Act, the Trading With the Enemy Act, and any other sanctions law to prohibit imports or exports, including to countries designated as state sponsors of terrorism.
Each stop is a step the bill’s own record states, with the date it happened. A ring is a step not yet taken. A bill becomes law when the President signs it or Congress overrides a veto.
At least 14 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 40 quarterly reports filed by 2 lobbying firms and by 12 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.
The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.
5 of them, in no ranking: American Petroleum Institute; Industrial Energy Consumers of America; Americans for Prosperity; Chamber of Commerce of the U.S.A.; Earthjustice Action. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 9 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.
From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.
Congress.gov bill status and cosponsor records; the House Clerk and Senate roll calls; lobbying reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act (lda.gov); the plain summary and provisions are read from the bill text, each with its section.