<div class="xtend"><a id="pl.1.1"></a><var>1.1</var>A resolution<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.2"></a><var>1.2</var>memorializing the President and Congress to enact legislation encouraging domestic <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.3"></a><var>1.3</var>oil drilling.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.4"></a><var>1.4</var>WHEREAS, the United States had 22,300,000,000 barrels of economically producible <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.5"></a><var>1.5</var>oil reserves as of December 31, 2009, according to the United States Energy Information <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.6"></a><var>1.6</var>Administration; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.7"></a><var>1.7</var>WHEREAS, dependence on foreign imports of oil exposes the United States economy to <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.8"></a><var>1.8</var>fluctuations caused by instability in other regions of the world and contributes to the foreign <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.9"></a><var>1.9</var>trade deficit; and <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.10"></a><var>1.10</var>WHEREAS, increasing domestic oil production would reduce American dependence on <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.11"></a><var>1.11</var>foreign sources of oil and reduce the foreign trade deficit; and<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.12"></a><var>1.12</var>WHEREAS, increasing domestic oil production would boost the national economy by <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.13"></a><var>1.13</var>creating jobs and increasing revenues from leases, production, profits, and consumption; NOW, <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.14"></a><var>1.14</var>THEREFORE,<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.15"></a><var>1.15</var>BE IT RESOLVED by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota that it urges the President <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.16"></a><var>1.16</var>and the Congress of the United States to speedily enact legislation that promotes and removes <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.17"></a><var>1.17</var>impediments to domestic oil drilling.<br />
         		<a id="pl.1.18"></a><var>1.18</var>BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Secretary of State of the State of Minnesota is <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.19"></a><var>1.19</var>directed to prepare copies of this memorial and transmit them to the President of the United <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.20"></a><var>1.20</var>States, the President and the Secretary of the United States Senate, the Speaker and the Clerk of <br />
         		<a id="pl.1.21"></a><var>1.21</var>the United States House of Representatives, the chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.1"></a><var>2.1</var>Natural Resources, the chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Minnesota's <br />
         		<a id="pl.2.2"></a><var>2.2</var>Senators and Representatives in Congress.<br />
         		
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