Overview
- Republican leaders held the roll call open for over 20 minutes until Rep. Wesley Hunt returned to cast the deciding vote against the resolution.
- Republicans Don Bacon and Thomas Massie broke with their party and voted with Democrats to advance the measure.
- Democrats said the resolution was warranted after a U.S. raid to capture Nicolás Maduro and Trump’s stated intention to control Venezuela’s oil sector.
- A similar resolution in the Senate ended in a tie last week before Vice President JD Vance broke it, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio agreed to brief the Foreign Relations panel next week.
- Senate Democrats sought transparency on Venezuelan oil licenses, pointing to a roughly $250 million license for Vitol and $6 million in donations by Vitol partner John Addison to Trump-aligned PACs in a letter to White House chief of staff Susie Wiles.