{"id":1978641,"date":"2023-07-20T15:27:03","date_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-bipartisan-measure-to-bar-us-from-selling-oil-reserves-to-china\/"},"modified":"2023-07-20T15:29:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-20T19:29:37","slug":"senate-passes-bipartisan-measure-to-bar-us-from-selling-oil-reserves-to-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-bipartisan-measure-to-bar-us-from-selling-oil-reserves-to-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate passes bill to prevent US from selling oil reserves 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\">24<\/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-passes-bipartisan-measure-to-bar-us-from-selling-oil-reserves-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=1978641&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Senate Passes Bipartisan Measure To Bar US From Selling Oil Reserves to China\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/democrat-ags-scramble-to-convince-companies-dei-is-still-legal\" data-post-url id=\"print-1770330\">\n<div>\n<p><h2>Vote comes one year after Free Beacon report showed Biden sold one million\u2062 reserve \u200bbarrels to China<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>          \u2062    \u2064    Sens. Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) and John \u2062Barrasso (R., Wyo.) \/ Getty Images<br \/>\n        <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>The Senate on Thursday passed with\u2064 bipartisan support a measure that bars the United States from selling its oil reserves to China, a move that comes one year after a <em>Washington Free \u200bBeacon<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/biden-sold-a-million-barrels-from-us-strategic-petroleum-reserve-to-china-owned-gas-giant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> showed \u2064the Biden administration sold nearly one million reserve \u200dbarrels to a Chinese oil giant.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sens. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) \u2064and Joe Manchin (D., W.Va.) introduced the policy as an amendment\u200c to the National Defense Authorization Act. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-passes-bipartisan-measure-to-bar-us-from-selling-oil-reserves-to-china\/\" title=\"Senate passes bill to prevent US from selling oil reserves to China.\">measure\u200b received wide bipartisan backing\u2014<\/a>just 14 Democrats voted no, \u200ccompared with\u200c 37 who joined\u200d their \u2062Republican colleagues in support of the ban. The amendment as\u200d a result passed 85-14, easily clearing the Senate&#8217;s 60-vote threshold.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200c amendment&#8217;s passage in the Democratic-controlled Senate comes as a\u2064 rebuke \u200cto President\u2063 Joe Biden, \u2064whose \u2064administration vehemently defended its sale \u2064of 950,000 Strategic\u2062 Petroleum Reserve barrels \u200cto the trading arm of \u200dthe China Petrochemical Corporation. \u200cWhite\u200b House spokesman Ian Sams, for example, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/biden-administration\/fact-checkers-said-bidens-chinese-oil-sale-was-no-big-deal-a-congressional-dem-just-moved-to-ban-the-practice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accused<\/a> the sale&#8217;s Republican critics of &#8220;lying&#8221; and &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-checkings-final-frontier\/\" title=\"Fact Checking\u2019s Final Frontier\">pushing false conspiracies<\/a> about the president,&#8221; an argument that did not stop a large \u2062majority of\u2064 Senate Democrats from supporting a ban.<\/p>\n<p>The amendment&#8217;s\u200c inclusion\u200d in\u2063 the National Defense \u200cAuthorization Act\u2014which authorizes funding for the Department of Defense\u2014will likely create a political headache \u200bfor Biden. The president has already <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/white-house-fights-to-strip-tough-on-china-provisions-from-annual-defense-spending-bill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voiced displeasure<\/a> with tough-on-China \u2062provisions included in the act. One would force the Pentagon to \u200bdisclose information on foreign \u200bnationals who work on military research, \u200bwhile another would order the secretary of defense to determine whether the Chinese government has aided in the transportation of fentanyl precursors to Mexican drug cartels.<\/p>\n<p>Still, a\u200d Biden veto of the act would create \u200cimmense controversy. The \u200bdefense\u200b policy legislation has become law each year \u2064for the last 62 \u200byears.<\/p>\n<p>The House in January passed identical legislation to bar China \u200bfrom purchasing U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-joe-biden-asked-china-to-produce-more-oil\/\" title=\"Report: Joe Biden Asked China to Produce More Oil\">reserve oil<\/a>. That bill also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/policy\/bill-to-bar-u-s-from-selling-oil-reserves-to-china-passes-house-with-bipartisan-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-pressure-biden-to-bring-home-former-marine-imprisoned-by-russia\/\" title=\"Republicans Pressure Biden To Bring Home Former Marine Imprisoned By Russia\">received bipartisan support<\/a><\/a>, with 113 of the 210 Democrats who voted supporting it. Cruz hammered Biden for selling \u2062reserve barrels to China, saying in a \u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruz.senate.gov\/newsroom\/press-releases\/sen-cruz-introduces-ndaa-amendment-to-protect-americas-strategic-petroleum-reserve-from-china\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> last week that he is &#8220;proud to lead the bipartisan effort to stop\u200c this from\u200d happening\u2062 in\u2062 the future.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stopthebigboxbaitandswitch.com\/?utm_source=freebeacon&#038;utm_medium=advertising&#038;utm_campaign=2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;The original intent of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve was to ensure that \u200dAmerica had sufficient \u2062oil reserves in the event of an emergency,&#8221;\u200c Cruz said. &#8220;We are unnecessarily and dangerously undermining our national security in any \u200binstance that we sell any part of this stockpile to the Chinese Communist Party or \u200cany company under its control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While Manchin joined Cruz to introduce the amendment,\u2064 the\u200c Democrat opposed a similar measure \u200bin the past. Manchin \u200cin 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_votes\/vote1172\/vote_117_2_00311.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shot down<\/a> a Cruz amendment to the \u200dso-called Inflation\u2062 Reduction \u200dAct that would have limited U.S. oil\u2062 reserves from going to &#8220;a bidder that intends to export the crude oil to the People&#8217;s Republic of China.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate passed a bipartisan measure prohibiting the US from selling its oil reserves to China, a year after a Free Beacon report revealed that Joe Biden sold one million reserve barrels to Chinese Senators Joe Manchin and John Barrasso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":176,"featured_media":1978642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978641","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\/176"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1978642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}