House Speaker Mike Johnson gave a big update after the Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025 passed the GOP-controlled U.S. House of Representatives. This bill undoes former President Joe Biden’s “catastrophic natural gas ban.”
In a press release, Johnson said, “President Trump and Congressional Republicans are working together to unleash reliable American energy to lower costs for families, support American workers and energy producers, and make sure that America is never again held hostage by radical climate bureaucrats and activists.”
“The Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act passed by the House helps make sure that American LNG exports are never banned again, takes politics out of the permitting process, and frees American energy producers from the Biden-era subversive bureaucratic overreach.” “This law makes more of President Trump’s executive orders official, pushes Republicans’ agenda to make them the leaders in energy, and returns LNG exports to normal, so America can be a leader in the global market again,” the Speaker said.
Chairman Guthrie said, “House Republicans are leading the way to support our nation’s energy security, strengthen our grid, and lower prices for hard-working families by unleashing American energy.”
Guthrie went on to say, “The REFINER Act will help make sure that our refineries are being used properly to make the oil, gas, and other important feedstocks we need. The Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act will also increase American energy production and infrastructure by getting rid of U.S. LNG export limits that the Biden-Harris Administration politicized and abused.”
“Today, the House passed my Unlocking Our Domestic LNG Potential Act, which is another big step toward making the United States the world’s leading energy producer.” “Once and for all, my bill fixes the broken, politically weaponized approval process so we can speed up the process of getting permission to export LNG,” said Congressman Pfluger.
“It’s easy: exporting American LNG helps our economy, keeps prices stable, brings in much-needed investment in energy infrastructure, and makes our global partners’ energy security stronger.” “I thank my coworkers for backing this important bill, and I urge the Senate to pass it quickly under Senator Scott’s strong leadership,” Pfluger said.
Johnson’s office released a “quick facts” sheet about the bill:
–During President Biden’s four years in office, not one new LNG export authorization was issued because of a politically motivated and wrong-headed ban on natural gas exports.
Since President Trump took office in January 2025, his administration has given the go-ahead for at least three LNG exports, and U.S. developers have made final investment decisions on six LNG export projects worth more than $70 billion.
–H.R. 1949 takes the politics out of exporting American liquefied natural gas (LNG) by taking away the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) power to approve its export and giving the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) full control over the process.
Johnson also said earlier this week that the House will hold hearings to look into the rise in violence against police officers across the country.
The meeting comes less than a week after two National Guard members who were sent to Washington, D.C. as part of President Trump’s anti-crime program were shot near the White House.
Army Specialist Sarah Beckstrom died from her injuries, but the second Guard member, 24-year-old U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, is still in serious condition but is showing “positive” signs of recovery.
The hearing also comes after other recent events, such as a deadly shooting at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the Dallas area earlier this year that killed at least one person.
According to an FBI report, attacks on police officers reached a 10-year high in 2023, with more than 79,000 attacks reported across the country. Still, Democrats have often criticized the Trump administration’s use of Guard troops and federal officers to try to control crime.
That being said, officials in the Trump administration are getting more aggressive about stopping both legal and illegal immigration to the United States. This is because an Afghan national who was let into the country under President Joe Biden killed Guard troops late last month.
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