; Whereas, in fiscal year 2022, the first full fiscal year of the Biden administration, the Bureau of Land Management approved an average of 233 drilling permits per month; Whereas, in contrast, the Bureau of Land Management was approving nearly 400 drilling permits monthly in fiscal year 2020; Whereas the Biden administration has held only 18 lease sales over 36 months in office; Whereas the Biden administration has leased roughly 232,000 acres bringing in roughly $180,000,000 in Federal funding, approximately one-tenth of the acreage and revenue secured by the Trump administration; Whereas, over the same time period, the Trump administration had held 82 lease sales, leasing 3,700,000 acres and bringing in over $1,700,000,000 for taxpayers. Whereas the Bureau of Land Management proposed a rule titled Waste Prevention, Production Subject to Royalties, and Resource Conservation (87 Fed. Reg. 73588) which aims to further regulate natural gas emissions from oil and natural gas production on Federal lands; Whereas the Bureau of Land Management issued Instructional Memoranda that restrict the rights of existing leaseholders, ignore statutory mandates, and will limit acreage in future sales; Whereas the Biden administration proposed the rule titled Conservation and Landscape Health (88 Fed. Reg. 19583) that would illegally elevate conservation as a multiple use under the Federal Land Management Policy Act of 1976; Whereas the Biden administration has proposed a rule titled Fluid Mineral Leases and Leasing Process (88. Fed. Reg. 47562) that would establish preference criteria to limit oil and gas leasing on Federal lands, while increasing royalty and bonding rates for oil and gas producers on Federal lands; and Whereas the Biden administration proposed numerous supplemental environmental impact statements for resource management plans across Western States that would lock up millions of acres of Federal lands from resource development: Now, therefore, be it