I will work for energy independence by prohibiting our strategic oil reserve to go to any country but the USA, expand drilling leases and open oil pipelines.
Work for energy independence by keeping the strategic oil reserve for the United States, expanding drilling leases, and opening oil pipelines.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Congress.gov shows H.R.22 passed the House on 2023-01-12, 331-97, and was placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar on 2023-01-25. CRS summarized the bill as prohibiting the sale and export of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to China or entities under Chinese Communist Party ownership, control, or influence.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 31 on 2023-01-12 as On Passage for H.R.22, status Passed, 331 yeas to 97 nays. The vote list records Bean (FL), Republican, Florida, voting Yea.
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Congress.gov shows H.R.21 passed the House on 2023-01-27, 221-205, and was referred to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on 2023-01-30. CRS summarized it as limiting nonemergency SPR drawdowns until DOE submits a plan to increase the percentage of federal lands, including Outer Continental Shelf lands, leased for oil and gas production.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 93 on 2023-01-27 as On Passage for H.R.21, status Passed, 221 yeas to 205 nays. The vote list records Bean (FL), Republican, Florida, voting Yea.
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Congress.gov shows H.R.1, the Lower Energy Costs Act, had status Passed House after the 2023-03-30 vote, 225-204. CRS summarized Division A as Increasing American Energy Production, Exports, Infrastructure, and Critical Minerals Processing, including provisions on hydraulic fracturing, refinery capacity, and a new process for cross-border energy infrastructure.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 182 on 2023-03-30 as On Passage for H.R.1, Lower Energy Costs Act, status Passed, 225 yeas to 204 nays. The vote list records Bean (FL), Republican, Florida, voting Yea.
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Congress.gov shows H.R.1 became Public Law No. 119-21 on 2025-07-04 after passing the House, Senate, and final House concurrence. The public-law summary includes Title V, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Subtitle A, Oil and Gas Leasing.
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The enacted text requires the Interior Secretary to immediately resume quarterly onshore oil and gas lease sales, conduct a minimum of four oil and gas lease sales each fiscal year in specified states, conduct at least 30 Gulf region offshore lease sales, conduct six Cook Inlet offshore lease sales, and restore and resume National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska oil and gas lease sales.
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The House Clerk records Roll Call 190 on 2025-07-03 as On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment for H.R.1, One Big Beautiful Bill Act, status Passed, 218 ayes to 214 noes. The vote list records Bean (FL), Republican, Florida, voting Aye.
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Congress.gov summarizes enacted H.R.1 provisions allowing expedited permitting for natural gas projects, permitting certain petroleum pipeline projects under natural-gas-project procedures, providing funding for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and repealing a required FY2026-FY2027 SPR drawdown and sale.
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BOEM reports that BBG3 is the third of thirty Gulf of America oil and gas lease sales required by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. On August 12, 2026, the sale generated $82,689,756 in high bids for 59 blocks across approximately 330,150 acres in federal waters.
Assessments
Bean’s 2022 House promise covered three federal energy actions: limiting/keeping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve for U.S. use, expanding drilling leases, and opening oil pipelines. In his first term he voted for House-passed bills addressing SPR restrictions, leasing, and energy infrastructure, but those did not become law. In the later 119th Congress, he voted for final House concurrence on H.R.1, which became Public Law 119-21 on July 4, 2025. The enacted law expanded oil and gas leasing through required onshore, Gulf, Cook Inlet, and NPR-A lease sales, included SPR funding and repeal of required drawdowns, and addressed permitting for natural gas and petroleum pipeline projects. Because the promised policy outcome was enacted while Bean remained in federal office and he voted for final passage, this counts as delivered, with later-term timing.
Bean made concrete House efforts in the term following the 2022 campaign by voting for SPR-related and energy-production bills, including H.R.22, H.R.21, and the 118th Congress Lower Energy Costs Act, but those measures did not become law. A later enacted 2025 law that Bean supported expanded federal oil and gas leasing, satisfying the drilling-leases component. The record does not show full delivery of the SPR and pipeline-opening components, so this is partial rather than delivered.