Mr. Chairman, the rhetoric is just not matching the reality. The reality is that current energy policies are forcing us to buy energy and minerals from the worst polluters on the Earth. Not only are they the worst polluters; they are the…

Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wittman), who is another member of the Natural Resources Committee.

Madam Chair, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Louisiana (Mr. Graves), who has offered so much positive input on the Lower Energy Costs Act. He is the author of the BUILDER Act and added so many other great provisions to this bill.

Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Chair, I heard the word ``rich'' mentioned a few times. I will tell you what is rich is when our colleagues across the aisle project their energy policies onto our plan. Again…

Madam Chair, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Lamborn), the senior Republican on the Committee on Natural Resources.

Madam Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. Valadao), who understands what bad energy policy does to rural America.

Madam Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Puerto Rico (Mrs. Gonzalez-Colon), another Member of the House Natural Resources Committee.

Madam Chair, I find it ironic that a Member from Pennsylvania, where one of the largest deposits of natural gas in the world resides, would call the producers in Pennsylvania the polluters versus the ones in Russia and Saudi Arabia. Madam…

Madam Chair, the Inflation Reduction Act that has been referenced here, it did invest in energy companies: energy companies in Saudi Arabia, energy companies in China, and energy companies in places like Russia and Venezuela and Iran at…

Madam Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Gosar), another member of the House Natural Resources Committee.

Madam Chair, I thank the gentlewoman for her input on the bill and for her great ideas. Madam Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.

Madam Chair, I yield myself such time as I may consume. The ideas of the Republican Party will do more to reduce global carbon emissions than anything that the Democrats have proposed, especially the legislation they passed in the last…

Madam Chair, I yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Carl), another member of the House Natural Resources Committee.

Madam Chair, I checked. We are in the 118th Congress, even though our colleagues keep putting signs up to describe their so- called Inflation Reduction Act, the polluters over people act. We also know they call this the climate bill. Even…

Mr. Chairman, thanks to Democrat energy policies, Putin, Xi Jinping, and the crown prince of Saudi are the ones that are drilling and mining their way to prosperity at the expense of the American public. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to…

Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Newhouse), the chair of the Congressional Western Caucus.

Mr. Chair, when I see the sign about selling out clean air, I think about the coal-powered plant per week that is being built in China so they can manufacture the minerals that we need here in America. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman…

Mr. Chair, may I inquire as to the time remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arkansas has 25 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Arizona has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining.