The business meeting will be held on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. EST, in Room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, D.C.

The purpose of the business meeting is to consider S. 4753, a bill to reform leasing, permitting, and judicial review for certain energy and mineral projects, and for other purposes and the nomination of Shannon A. Estenoz to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior. 

The business meeting will be webcast live on the committee’s website, and an archived video will be available shortly after the business meeting concludes.  

Agenda Item 1: S. 4753, a bill to reform leasing, permitting, and judicial review for certain energy and minerals projects, and for other purposes. (Reported, as amended, by roll call vote of 15-4) 

Amendments considered 

• #42 - Manchin-Barrasso Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute (agreed to by voice vote) 
• #29 - Daines-King-Risch 1st Degree Amendment (agreed to by roll call vote,12-7)
• #37 - Daines-Hyde-Smit-Murkowski-h-Cassidy-Risch 1st Degree Amendment (failed, 9-10)
• #61 - King 2nd Degree Amendment (failed, 9-10) 
• #1   - Wyden-Padilla-Cantwell 1st Degree Amendment (failed, 9-10)
• #53 - Sanders 1st Degree Amendment (failed, 6-13) 
• #33 - Daines-Murkowski 1st Degree Amendment (failed, 8-11) 
• #14 - Hawley 1st Degree Amendment (failed, 8-11)

Agenda Item 2: Nomination of Shannon Estenoz to be Deputy Secretary of the Interior. (Reported favorably by roll call vote of 16-3)