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Mr. President, I have had many experiences presiding when you have gotten up to speak about energy and climate. So now the roles are reversed, and I will take a perspective somewhat similar to yours in the past but perhaps a little bit…

Mr. President, I am rising to support the amendment that my colleague Senator John Kennedy will introduce. So I will speak before he introduces it, but I speak in support thereof. Senator Kennedy is going to introduce an amendment that…

Madam President, I'll add to what my colleague, John Kennedy, said. If you fly over southwest Louisiana, you see blue tarps. Those tarps are there because the families have not had the money to replace their roofs. If you get on the…

Mr. Speaker, it is very interesting where we find ourselves right now. Just a few years ago--in fact, within the last year--we have advocated for banning Russian oil. We have advocated for it. Guess who has opposed it, on the record…

Madam Chair, as I mentioned to you once before, in my entire life, I have never heard of a committee not allowing documents to be submitted in the record by unanimous consent until this committee did it last year, I believe.

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize Ambassador Harold E. Doley, Jr. on his 75th birthday. Ambassador Harold E. Doley, Jr., a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, rang the closing bell of the New York Stock Exchange on February 18, 2022…

We must help foster safety in HBCU communities. Today's resolution is a way that Congress can commit to fighting against hatred and racism and stand with HBCUs.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the chairman for yielding, and a special thanks to Representative Alma Adams for her tireless efforts on behalf of our Nation's historically Black colleges and universities. HBCUs were built to educate and celebrate…

Every Democrat member of this committee voted against banning Russian oil.

The only President in recent time or over the last 5 years that has reduced emissions is President Trump, not President Biden.

No isn't an energy policy. Opposing everything isn't an energy policy.

We need to be talking about something that is rational, something that is science based, and we are not.

Madam Speaker, look at what is happening right now. We are dependent upon foreign sources of energy from volatile places around the world. We are bringing in energy from African nations. We have recently brought in energy from Venezuela…

We have 38 billion barrels of reserves in the United States, 38 billion barrels of technically proven reserves of oil.

The Biden Administration's EIA says that developing countries are going to need between a 44- and 80-percent increase in natural gas.

We instead, last year, nearly tripled the importation of Russian crude oil into the United States--nearly tripled it--which then funded, effectively, Putin's aggression in Ukraine.