S. 170 119th Congress Senate

BIG OIL from the Cabinet Act

Official title: A bill to prohibit the appointment of former fossil fuel executive officers and fossil fuel lobbyists as the heads of certain departments, and for other purposes.

Introduced: January 21, 2025 Introduced by: Edward J. Markey Democratic · Massachusetts See on congress.gov

Government Operations and Politics CoalExecutive agency funding and structureFederal officialsOil and gasPublic participation and lobbying

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Jan 21, 2025

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Jan 21, 2025

Introduced in Senate

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Banning In Government Oil Industry Lobbyists from the Cabinet Act or the BIG OIL from the Cabinet Act

This bill prohibits the appointment of an individual to specified high-level federal positions if that individual has served as an executive officer of a fossil fuel entity, a fossil fuel lobbyist, or an executive officer of a fossil fuel trade association in the previous 10 years.

The applicable federal positions include the Chief of Staff to the President, the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Transportation, the Secretary of State, and all political appointments in specified agencies.

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Committees of jurisdiction 1

Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
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Lobbying activity 2

Registered lobbyists who named this bill in their disclosure filings. Source: federal Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

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Bodies those filers lobbied

Centers For Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
2 filings
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)
2 filings
Defense, Dept of (DOD)
2 filings
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
2 filings
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
2 filings
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
2 filings
Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
2 filings
Federal Reserve System
2 filings

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Cosponsors 1

Merkley, Jeff

Oregon · Jan 21, 2025

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 170: BIG OIL from the Cabinet Act. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-S-170/

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