Work with Senate colleagues to pass the STEAM Act and the Geothermal Ombudsman for National Deployment and Optimal Reviews Act through the Senate and send them to the President's desk to expedite geothermal development and streamline federal geothermal permitting.
Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.
Occurrences
I look forward to working with my colleagues in the Senate to make sure these bills pass on the Floor of the Senate and make it to the President’s desk.
After two Cortez Masto-led geothermal bills passed the House, she committed to working with Senate colleagues to pass them on the Senate floor and send them to the President.
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Congress.gov lists S.4753 as sponsored by Sen. Joe Manchin, introduced July 23, 2024, referred to Senate Energy and Natural Resources, with latest action December 19, 2024: placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar. The tracker says: This bill has the status Introduced.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The main Senate vehicle containing geothermal permitting reforms did not pass the Senate, did not go to the House, and was not sent to the President; it remained at introduced/calendar status in the 118th Congress.
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Congress.gov action history shows four actions: read twice and referred on July 23, 2024; ordered reported favorably by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on July 31, 2024; reported with S. Rept. 118-336 on December 19, 2024; and placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on December 19, 2024.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official action list stops at committee reporting and calendar placement, with no Senate passage, House passage, enrollment, or presidential presentation.
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The reported text includes Section 208, Geothermal leasing and permitting improvements, with deadlines for geothermal drilling permits, annual geothermal lease-sale changes, a federal permitting process for concurrent consideration of multiple geothermal project phases, and a Geothermal Ombudsman within the Bureau of Land Management.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The bill contained provisions matching the substance of expediting geothermal development and creating a geothermal ombudsman, but the text was never enacted.
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee listed S.4753 as an agenda item and reported it, as amended, by roll call vote of 15-4. The page also lists amendments considered at the July 31, 2024 business meeting.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The committee did advance the permitting bill, showing legislative movement, but this was only committee action and not Senate passage or presidential presentation.
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Congress.gov lists Sen. Joe Manchin as sponsor and Sen. John Barrasso as the only cosponsor of S.4753. Catherine Cortez Masto is not listed as sponsor or cosponsor.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The official sponsor/cosponsor record does not show Cortez Masto as introducing or cosponsoring this geothermal permitting vehicle.
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The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee announced that Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso released the Energy Permitting Reform Act of 2024 to accelerate permitting for energy and mineral projects. The release attributes the bill to Manchin and Barrasso after committee hearings and negotiations.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The relevant permitting reform package was released by other Senate colleagues, not by Cortez Masto, and later failed to reach the President's desk.
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663 H.R. 5631 An act to promote responsible geothermal energy development on public lands, and for other purposes. Sept. 17, 2026.—Senator Lee, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, without amendment. (No written report.)
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Within the lookback window, the House geothermal package containing the relevant reforms was reported out of Senate Energy and Natural Resources and placed on the Senate calendar, but the record shown is calendar placement, not Senate passage or presidential presentment.
SEC. 6. GEOTHERMAL OMBUDSMAN AND PERMITTING TASK FORCE.
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): The House-passed H.R. 5631 includes the geothermal ombudsman and permitting task force language matching one part of Cortez Masto's commitment.
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SEC. 8. NEPA REVIEW.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The same House-passed package includes NEPA review streamlining for geothermal exploration and development, corresponding to the STEAM Act substance, but it still required Senate passage and presentment.
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Passed the House of Representatives June 2, 2026.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The geothermal package cleared the House, a partial step toward enactment, but this does not satisfy the pledge to pass it through the Senate and send it to the President.
Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself and Ms. Murkowski) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Cortez Masto introduced the 119th Congress Senate STEAM Act with Murkowski, establishing concrete candidate-led effort on the STEAM component.
Ms. Cortez Masto (for herself and Mr. Risch) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): Cortez Masto introduced the Senate Geothermal Ombudsman bill with Risch, showing bipartisan candidate-led effort, but the bill had not itself become law.
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Received in Senate and referred to Energy and Natural Resources June 3, 2026. Reported Sept. 17, 2026; no written report.
Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): The October 19 legislative history still ends with Senate committee reporting of the House-passed geothermal package. It records no Senate passage or presidential presentment. The commitment remains unresolved during the ongoing Senate term; committee advancement does not establish delivery.
introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Fetched verbatim passage. AI summary (separate from source): A new bipartisan permitting vehicle introduced within the lookback window includes a geothermal ombudsman and permitting task force in section 2224 and geothermal NEPA streamlining in section 2229. These provisions advance the substance of both promised reforms as legislative proposals, but introduction and referral do not fulfill Senate passage or presidential presentment. This source does not independently establish additional Cortez Masto effort.
Public state: unverifiedAs of unknown · legacy_unverified · . Original AI recommendation (not independently established): never.same_term
The promised outcome was to pass the STEAM Act/geothermal ombudsman permitting reforms through the Senate and send them to the President. The relevant 118th Congress vehicle, S.4753, included matching geothermal permitting and ombudsman provisions and advanced out of committee, but it was only placed on the Senate calendar and never passed the Senate, cleared the House, or reached the President. The record also does not show Cortez Masto as sponsor or cosponsor of that vehicle, so the evidence supports failure of the promised outcome without a clear serious candidate-led attempt warranting an effort badge.
provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 92%