Key US House Republican backs US crude exports

摘要

Washington-A key congressional leader Tuesday threw his support behind a legislative end to US restrictions on crude exports, set- ting up both a unified effort in the House and Senate and a possible battle with an Obama administration unwilling to alter the current export regime. The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Tuesday for- mally endorsed an end to limits on US crude exports and signaled that the House would pursue legislation this year to do so.