Americans for Prosperity Celebrates Bipartisan Passage of the SPEED Act in the House

Dec 18, 2025 by AFP

Washington, D.C. – Today, the House passed H.R. 4776, the “Standardizing Permitting and Expediting Economic Development (SPEED) Act” by a bipartisan vote of 221 YEA to 196 NAY. The bill could help lower energy costs by making it easier to build new power plants through the streamlining of environmental reviews, setting predictable and enforceable guidelines and timelines for agencies, and reducing unnecessary litigation around energy projects. The bill also represents the most significant reform to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in more than 50 years.

Brent Gardner, Chief Government Affairs Officer for Americans for Prosperity, issued the following statement:

“America wants to build and for too long, Washington bureaucrats have said no. We applaud House Republican leadership for listening to hard-working Americans around the country and making permitting reform a priority, following through on their promises to help produce more energy, cheaper.

Our grassroots teams have been crisscrossing the country as part of the Road to Prosperity campaign, visiting 11 states to highlight how a broken energy permitting system costs Americans high-paying jobs, hinders our local economies, stalls private sector investment, and holds back American leadership on the global stage.

But today is just the beginning. Americans for Prosperity is calling for the Senate to take up in January 2026 the SPEED Act and other permitting bills passed by the House and send a package to President Trump for signature that will help America beat China, lower energy production costs here at home, and build a next-generation economy.”

Americans for Prosperity Hit the Road to Highlight Permitting Reform

In September, Americans for Prosperity launched the Road to Prosperity campaign to help unleash America’s potential by elevating the critical need for permitting reform. We hosted events in nearly a dozen states including visiting a power plant in Kentucky, an oil rig in Louisiana, a coal mine in Pennsylvania, an iron mine in Minnesota, an oil and gas processing site in Wyoming, hosted a roundtable about coal in Ohio, as well as stops in Wisconsin, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Texas, and Utah.