Bill Text: TX HCR15 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging the federal government to support the construction of the Eastern Mediterranean gas pipeline.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-11-12 - Filed [HCR15 Detail]
Download: Texas-2025-HCR15-Introduced.html
| 89R1142 KSM-F | ||
| By: Dorazio | H.C.R. No. 15 | |
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| WHEREAS, The United States and Israel have a long history of | ||
| being strong allies, sharing many mutually beneficial values and | ||
| interests; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Europe needs additional sources of natural gas, and | ||
| the United States has repeatedly urged Europe to wean itself off | ||
| Russian natural gas and to pursue broader interests in the Middle | ||
| East; and | ||
| WHEREAS, The proposed Eastern Mediterranean gas pipeline, | ||
| which would connect the natural gas fields of Israel to southern | ||
| Europe by way of Cyprus and Greece, has previously had bipartisan | ||
| support in the United States; as vice president under Barack Obama, | ||
| Joe Biden was a vocal supporter of the project, and in 2020, with | ||
| the backing of former president Donald Trump's administration, | ||
| Israel, Cyprus, and Greece signed an agreement aiming to complete | ||
| the $6 billion pipeline by 2025; and | ||
| WHEREAS, In January 2022, President Joe Biden informed the | ||
| countries that the United States was withdrawing its support for | ||
| the project, citing environmental concerns as his administration | ||
| attempts to move away from fossil fuels; and | ||
| WHEREAS, Natural gas is an important low-emissions fuel for | ||
| improving human life, and Israel has abundant natural gas reserves | ||
| offshore, in excess of what is needed for its own domestic use; the | ||
| completion of the Eastern Mediterranean gas pipeline from Israel to | ||
| southern Europe would be a benefit to the region and to all of the | ||
| countries involved in the project; now, therefore, be it | ||
| RESOLVED, That the 89th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
| hereby respectfully urge the federal government to support | ||
| construction of the Eastern Mediterranean gas pipeline; and, be it | ||
| further | ||
| RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
| copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
| the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
| Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
| members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
| this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
| memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. | ||
