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Checked against the record · Texas 15th District 2026

Has Monica De La Cruz voted to cut energy rules and support oil and gas jobs?

Matches stated direction. She voted for two House energy bills that did not become law, two rule repeals that did, and the 2025 law requiring oil and gas lease sales.

Monica De La Cruz

Energy: oil and gas production

Matches stated direction

What they say

Her campaign says it will end regulations that increase the cost of energy and support oil and natural gas jobs.

“Support oil and natural gas jobs”

What the record shows ·

She cosponsored the Lower Energy Costs Act and voted Yea when it passed the House 225 to 204 on March 30, 2023. She voted Yea on the Protecting American Energy Production Act, which would bar a president from banning fracking without Congress, when it passed 226 to 188 on February 7, 2025. Neither became law. In 2025 she voted for two resolutions that struck energy rules and became law: one on EPA's waste emissions charge for oil and gas systems (H.J.Res. 35, Public Law 119-2) and one on Energy Department efficiency standards for commercial refrigerators (H.J.Res. 75, Public Law 119-9). The 2025 reconciliation act she voted for twice, Public Law 119-21, requires onshore and offshore oil and gas lease sales (sections 50101 and 50102).

Limit: Two of these bills did not become law; the two rule repeals and the leasing sections did. Her votes on the reconciliation act were votes on the whole act. A roll call does not show what a law does to energy prices or jobs.

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  1. Monica on the Issueshttps://monicaforcongress.us/issues/

    Monica for Congress · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    The campaign's issue list: six headings (agriculture, border security and immigration, economy, energy, seniors, spending and national debt) with short bullet lines. Undated.

    candidate statement

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  2. H.R. 1, Lower Energy Costs Act, 118th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    She is a cosponsor. Passed the House 225 to 204 on March 30, 2023 (Roll Call 182); never enacted.

    official legislative record

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  3. Roll Call 182 of 2023, H.R. 1, Lower Energy Costs Act, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023182

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of March 30, 2023, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. Her vote is listed under her member ID, D000594.

    official legislative record

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  4. H.R. 26, Protecting American Energy Production Act, 119th Congresshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/26

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Would bar a president from declaring a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing unless Congress authorises it. Passed the House 226 to 188 on February 7, 2025 (Roll Call 35); not enacted.

    official legislative record

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  5. Roll Call 35 of 2025, H.R. 26, Protecting American Energy Production Act, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202535

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of February 7, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. Her vote is listed under her member ID, D000594.

    official legislative record

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  6. H.J.Res. 35, 119th Congress, disapproving EPA's rule on the waste emissions charge for oil and gas systemshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/35

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. August Pfluger. Passed the House 220 to 206 on February 26, 2025 (Roll Call 52); became Public Law 119-2 on March 14, 2025.

    official legislative record

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  7. Roll Call 52 of 2025, H.J.Res. 35, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202552

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of February 26, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. Her vote is listed under her member ID, D000594.

    official legislative record

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  8. H.J.Res. 75, 119th Congress, disapproving Energy Department efficiency standards for commercial refrigeratorshttps://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-joint-resolution/75

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Sponsored by Rep. Craig Goldman. Passed the House 214 to 193 on March 27, 2025 (Roll Call 78); became Public Law 119-9 on May 9, 2025.

    official legislative record

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  9. Roll Call 78 of 2025, H.J.Res. 75, on passagehttps://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202578

    Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Recorded vote of March 27, 2025, read from the Clerk's roll-call XML. Her vote is listed under her member ID, D000594.

    official legislative record

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  10. H.R. 1, 119th Congress (the 2025 reconciliation act), Public Law 119-21https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Passed the House May 22, 2025 (Roll Call 145) and, as amended by the Senate, July 3, 2025 (Roll Call 190); signed July 4, 2025.

    official legislative record

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  11. Public Law 119-21https://www.congress.gov/119/plaws/publ21/PLAW-119publ21.htm

    Congress.gov · Reviewed Oct 1, 2026

    Enacted text. Section 70101 extends the reduced individual rates and section 70105 the deduction for qualified business income. Sections 50101 and 50102 require onshore and offshore oil and gas lease sales. Section 90001 appropriates $46,550,000,000 for the border wall system, section 90002 money to hire Border Patrol agents and other CBP staff, and section 100054 money for hiring immigration judges. Section 72001 raises the debt limit by $5,000,000,000,000.

    official legislative record

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