FILE - Ic this March 24, 2015, file photo, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. answers a question during a House GOP leadership news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The White House said Sept. 15, it opposes a House Republican bill to lift the four-decade-old ban on crude oil exports. White House press secretary Josh Earnest took a shot at McCarthy and other Republicans pushing to end the oil export ban, which was imposed in the 1970s as the United States responded to an Arab oil embargo that sparked inflation and prompted long lines at gas stations. "It is quite clear what Leader McCarthy's priorities are, and the priorities of his party in Congress: to cozy up to oil interests and to pursue policies and to make policy announcements that are clearly in their interests," said Earnest. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)