{"id":1598536,"date":"2022-08-10T08:18:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:18:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1598536"},"modified":"2022-08-10T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-10T12:19:22","slug":"senate-democrats-block-amendment-to-massive-spending-bill-to-prevent-us-oil-sales-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-block-amendment-to-massive-spending-bill-to-prevent-us-oil-sales-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Block Amendment to Massive Spending Bill to Prevent US Oil Sales to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-democrats-block-amendment-to-massive-spending-bill-to-prevent-us-oil-sales-to-china%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1598536&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Forty-six Senate Democrats recently rejected a GOP legislative amendment to block the Biden administration from selling oil from the United States\u2019 strategic reserve to the Chinese regime.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ted-cruz\">Ted Cruz<\/a> (R-Texas) offered the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/amendment\/117th-congress\/senate-amendment\/5265\">amendment<\/a> during a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senate-begins-vote-a-rama-on-inflation-reduction-bill_4648345.html\">vote-a-rama<\/a>\u201d process, which lasted nearly 16 hours from Saturday evening until Sunday afternoon, when senators voted on many amendments and motions for a Democrat-led bill known as the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/republicans-say-americans-will-fire-the-democratic-majority-in-midterms-for-passing-billion-dollar-spending-bill_4649786.html\">Inflation Reduction Act of 2022<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, a mammoth spending bill totaling $740 billion on climate and energy, health care, and taxes, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/senate-democrats-near-passage-on-health-and-climate-bill-after-overnight-vote-a-rama_4648557.html\">passed<\/a> on Aug. 7 by a party-line vote of 51 to 50, with Vice President Kamala Harris casting the tie-breaking vote. The House could give the legislation final approval on Aug. 12, when lawmakers reconvene briefly from summer recess.<\/p>\n<p>Before the passage of the legislation, Cruz urged his Democrat colleagues to support his amendment, reminding them that the Biden administration has sold millions of barrels of oil from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-strategic-petroleum-reserve\">Strategic Petroleum Reserve<\/a> (SPR) to China.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat oil was paid for by U.S. taxpayers,\u201d Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/senate-democrats-block-cruz-amendment-insist-biden-should-sell-more-oil-to-china\">said<\/a> on the Senate floor. \u201cMy bill would block the president from selling our oil to the Chinese communists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cruz continued, \u201cI would note also that it was sold to a Chinese company owned by the communist government, in which a significant stake was owned by a private equity firm, owned in significant part by the president\u2019s own son, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/bidens-selling-of-oil-from-reserve-to-hunter-biden-tied-chinese-firm-impeachable-republicans_4586682.html\">Hunter Biden<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the Democrats don\u2019t want to see millions of barrels of U.S. oil sold to the Chinese communists, they should support my amendment,\u201d Cruz added.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/04\/25\/GettyImages-1233045326-1200x800-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Hunter Biden walks to Marine One on the Ellipse outside the White House in Washington on May 22, 2021. (Brendan Smialowski\/AFP via Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/communist-chinese-firm-got-nearly-6-million-barrels-of-us-oil-reserves-through-auction-sale-records-show_4621191.html\">sold nearly 6 million barrels of oil<\/a> from the SPR from September 2021 to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-six Senate Democrats recently rejected a GOP legislative amendment to block the Biden administration from selling oil from the United States\u2019 strategic reserve to the Chinese regime. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) offered the amendment during a \u201cvote-a-rama\u201d process, which lasted nearly 16 hours from Saturday evening until Sunday afternoon, when senators voted on many amendments [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1598536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1598536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1598536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1598536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1598536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1598536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}