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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Representative Katie Porter, who has earned a reputation for grilling bank and drug company executives during Congressional hearings, told Reuters she will focus on a new target in her new role as chair of the House Natural Resources Oversight Committee: Big Oil.<\/p>

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The position will make the California Democrat a key player in U.S. energy policy as President Joe Biden puts curbs on federal fossil fuel development at the center of a plan to fight climate change.<\/p>\n

Biden paused new federal oil and gas leases, source of about a quarter of U.S. petroleum production, shortly after taking office in a move widely seen as a first step toward delivering on his campaign promise of a permanent ban.<\/p>\n

Porter is one of several Democratic lawmakers that introduced a set of bills this week to reform federal oil and gas leasing regulations, including by raising royalty rates for the first time in a century – proposals that could impact existing leases even if new leases are eventually phased out.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow can things not have gone up as I see the cost of my everyday expenses — healthcare, childcare, college, housing — all go up?\u201d Porter said. \u201cThis is not a coincidence. This takes intense lobbying work by the fossil fuel industry to prevent these changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Porter introduced a bill that would boost the amount oil companies must pay on their federal onshore production to 18.75% from 12%, a rate that has not changed since 1920, and also increase minimum bids in lease auctions to $5 per acre from $2.<\/p>\n

\u201cI confess when I first heard the term \u2018oil and gas royalty rates\u2019 I didn\u2019t immediately feel a deep emotional sort of reaction to fighting the issue. But as I began to understand what\u2019s really at stake, which is oil and gas companies taking our public resources at pennies on the dollar, I began to feel outraged,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

A second-term Congresswoman from California, Porter has become a social media sensation after her rapid-fire grilling of powerful executives over issues like compensation and drugs pricing.<\/p>\n

She is perhaps best known for scrawling on what Twitter dubbed her \u201cwhiteboard of truth\u201d during committee meetings -a prop she will use in her new oversight role.<\/p>\n

Porter said that as a professor who taught classes about bankruptcy, she enjoys teaching esoteric policy and making it real for people.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur public lands are not a speculative investment,\u201d she said. \u201cThey are a national treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

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