Niki Tsongas: “I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is…”

“I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 4, strike the closing quotation marks and second period at line 19, and after line 19 insert the following: ``(7) Worst-case containment and clean-up plan required.-- The Secretary shall include, in each 5-year oil and gas leasing program, a requirement that each applicant for a permit to drill under a lease issued in a lease sale under the program must include a plan for containment and clean-up of a worst-case oil and gas discharge scenario in activities conducted under the permit, if issued.''. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 257, the gentlewoman from Massachusetts (Ms. Tsongas) and a Member opposed each will control 5 minutes. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from Massachusetts.”