Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land Management relating to Coastal Plain Oil and Gas Leasing Program Record of Decision.

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Congress used its Property Clause and legislative oversight powers through lawful presentment to nullify a 2024 agency restriction on Coastal Plain leasing. It infringes no Bill of Rights protection, expands productive liberty, stays at the constitutionally required federal level for federal land, and provides full due process with no taking.

• ✓ Passes · Enumerated powers
  Congress has explicit authority over federal territory and property under Article IV, Section 3, Clause 2 (Property Clause), including the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain, plus Necessary and Proper authority under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18 to disapprove agency rules through the Congressional Review Act. This is a legislative check on executive rulemaking, not an assertion of un…
• ✓ Passes · Bill of Rights
  Nullifying an executive-branch restriction on leasing does not abridge speech, religion, press, assembly under the First Amendment, does not implicate the Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, or Eighth Amendments, and does not infringe unenumerated rights retained under the Ninth Amendment. No search, seizure, compelled testimony, or prior restraint is authorized.
• ✓ Passes · Individual sovereignty
  The measure removes rather than imposes a restriction: it restores eligibility for lease, exploration, labor, contract, and productive use of resources subject to statute, expanding rather than contracting individual and enterprise freedom to bid, work, and produce. The burden analysis under the Ninth Amendment and liberty principles favors repeal of restrictions; no compelled speech, belief, labo…
• ✓ Passes · Decentralization
  Management of federally owned refuge land cannot be handled by an individual, family, county, or state acting alone because title is held by the United States. Action therefore does not consolidate upward beyond the minimum necessary level; it reverses a federal executive restriction through a federal legislative act, consistent with the Tenth Amendment reservation for powers not delegated. Questi…
• ✓ Passes · Due process and takings
  The resolution uses lawful legislative procedure with presentment under Article I, Section 7, and the Congressional Review Act procedure in 5 U.S.C. chapter 8, providing notice through enrollment and presidential signature as Public Law 119-52. It effects no deprivation of life, liberty, or property under the Fifth Amendment Due Process Clause and no physical or regulatory taking requiring just co…

Sources: Congress.gov: HJRES 131 summary