Energy: opening Alaska land to oil and gas
What they say
His campaign says he is running on a record that includes unleashing Alaska's energy potential.
“unleashing Alaska’s energy potential”
What the record shows ·
He sponsored S.J. Res. 80, which overturned the Bureau of Land Management's record of decision for the National Petroleum Reserve's leasing plan; it became Public Law 119-47 on December 5, 2025. He voted Yea on the 2025 reconciliation act (roll call 372), whose section 50104 requires at least four more area-wide oil and gas lease sales on the Arctic refuge's Coastal Plain within ten years, and whose section 50105 restores leasing in the Petroleum Reserve under the 2020 plan and requires at least five lease sales there within ten years.
Limit: A law that requires lease sales or restores a leasing plan opens land to production; it does not produce oil, and nothing in these records measures production that followed. The records show the direction he claims, not the outcome “unleashing” implies.