What the McConnell amendment would do:
•Produce up to 24 billion barrels of oil when fully enacted—enough oil to keep America running for 5 years with no foreign imports.
•Allow petitions for leasing activities on the Outer Continental Shelf—an area with 14 billion barrels of known recoverable oil.
•As no new refineries have been built in the U.S. in 30 years, give the EPA authority to expedite permits for refineries
•Establish a competitive oil and gas leasing program for ANWR
•Repeal the $4000 fee for new permit applications to drill.
•Repeal the 2007 provision that reduces mineral leasing revenue payments to the states.
•Repeal the moratorium on funds to encourage the commercial leasing of oil shale.

Isn’t it time Congress came to its senses and voted for U.S. domestic energy production?