Bill speeds up permits for natural gas pipelines.
H.R. 3668 — Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act · Filed by Richard Hudson (R-NC) · 3 cosponsors · Introduced Jun 2, 2025 · Passed chamber
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What it does
The bill makes one federal agency, FERC, lead all reviews for natural gas pipelines. It cuts review time and limits other agencies from doing their own checks. States lose power to block pipelines based on water quality. All federal approvals must finish in 90 days.
Who it affects
States and tribes lose power to block or change pipelines. People lose some environmental and water-quality protections. Pipeline companies get faster approval to build.
One thing to notice
Other agencies cannot submit comments if they are not the lead agency. States can suggest water-quality rules, but FERC decides whether to use them.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
3 cosponsors: 3 Republicans.
- Jun 2, 2025 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 2, 2025 — Referred to House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and House Committee on Energy and Commerce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and…”
- Jun 5, 2025 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jun 25, 2025 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 27 - 23”
- Dec 12, 2025 — Passed the House · Congress.gov: “On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 213 - 184 (Roll no. 334). (text: CR H5814-5816)”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
13 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 20 reports from Dec 2025 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $7,800,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 26 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 94% of bills with any report.
Richard Hudson, who sponsored the bill, received $1,708,144 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- American Petroleum Institute — $1,920,000 in 1 report
- Chevron U.S.A. Inc. — $1,670,000 in 1 report
- Enbridge (u.s.) Inc — $732,000 in 2 reports
- American Gas Association — $630,000 in 2 reports
- Interstate Natural Gas Association of America — $598,000 in 2 reports
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- FERC — The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the main federal agency that approves pipelines.
- lead agency — The main government office in charge of reviewing and approving a project.
- water-quality protections — Rules that stop projects from harming rivers, streams, and drinking water.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (14,440 characters) on Jul 2, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Dec 2025 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 23, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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