"House lawmakers will vote [this] week on a bill that would lift the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports.

The House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on trade said Friday that will meet March 25 to debate the bill sponsored by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) and vote on it.

It will be the first time in recent years that lawmakers have voted on a proposal to lift the ban, enacted in 1975 to protect the country from the Arab oil embargo."

Timothy Cama reports for The Hill March 20, 2015. [2]