Political Quotes

“I rise in support of H.R. 3632, the Power Plant Reliability Act, sponsored by my colleague Mr. Griffith from Virginia's Ninth Congressional District. H.R. 3632 enhances existing authority under the Federal Power Act to protect the bulk-power system from premature retirements of baseload power and ensures more effective long-term planning for our generating resources. It is no secret that we find ourselves in a reliability and affordability crisis driven by irresponsible decisions to shutter reliable and affordable baseload power plants. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim their positions are based on science, but the problem is their science is political science that will lead to higher energy costs and less reliability. Even the head of the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, who is charged with protecting the reliability of our Nation's bulk-power system, recently called the reliability crisis a five-alarm fire. This is the path that was laid out by the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats, pushing their misguided and dangerous political science. Making a bad situation worse, we need significant energy resources to compete in the artificial intelligence arms race. With adversarial nations like China, whoever wins the AI arms race will not be a superpower. They will be the superpower.”