vice president camela Harris has tried to Fashion herself as a fracking proponent when pressed on the subject but she has routinely omitted key context from her goto defensive talking point Harris who said in 2019 that there is no question fracking should be banned has pointed to a tiebreaking vote on the inflation reduction act IIA as evidence that she now supports oil and gas development however the Biden Harris Administration slow walked or otherwise undermined the oil and gas leasing that the bill stipulates must happen in exchange for progress on grain energy leases so my values have not changed and I'm going to discuss everyone at least every point that you've made but in particular let's talk about fracking because we are here in Pennsylvania I made that very clear in 2020 I will not ban fracking I have not banned fracking as Vice President of the United States Harris said in response to a question about her numerous policy reversals during Tuesday night's debate against former president Donald Trump and in fact I Was the tiebreaking vote on the inflation reduction act which opened new leases for fracking during an interview with CNN's Dana Bash Harris made a similar statement in response to a question about her position on fracking specifically the IIA stipulated that in order to create new offshore wind laces the federal government must offer no less than 60 million acres worth of offshore oil and gas laces in the PRI year according to the Columbia law schools II tracker that provision was the handiwork of then Democratic West Virginia senator Joe Mansion Who insisted on including that sort of language the IIA as the bill was being negotiated according to the Wall Street Journal the bill passed without a single go vote after mansion and fellow holdout independent Arizona senator kiston Cinema were won over to support the legislation subscribe and click the bill icon for the more videos