As I have to constantly do, correct the record. I practiced for Bear Bryant.

But it is also reported that there was an intelligence security memo detailing at least 15 instances over the course of less than a year showing suspected extremists openly threatening and calling for acts of sabotage against the energy…

I think that is a problem.

Did you get that warning?

I think I am not going to buy that, Mr. Chairman, that you can't protect them.

I can only imagine what would happen to people with cardiovascular issues, respiratory issues, that don't have power at all.

We are not talking about necessarily putting up ballistic-proof fencing or things like that.

I thank Chairman Johnson for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of S.J. Res. 11, a resolution nullifying the EPA's overreaching rule on American trucks. Mr. Speaker, the American people cannot afford yet another misguided Biden…

the existential threat to the United States and to the world really is not climate change. It is China.

the components that we need for solar panels and for turbines, we will be relying on China for that.

I think our permitting, our regulatory regime has done enormous damage to our economy and to our ability to catch up with China.

we are making ourselves more vulnerable to an adversarial nation like China by pursuing these things.

I think my earlier point is, these hearings become partisan crap shows. I hate to say that.

Short of banning all firearms in every state and Mexico and Canada, can you explain to me how passing another law will reduce gun violence?

I just want to point out that the median household income in the District of Columbia, 74 percent higher than it is in Alabama, Kentucky.

I really do not believe in gun violence. I think my colleague, Mr. Higgins from Louisiana, addressed that very intelligently and forthrightly that there is no such thing as gun violence, it is only human violence.

Well, Mr. Chairman, I appreciate you holding this hearing and trying to address a very serious issue.

In 1996 the Clinton administration repealed section 936 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code, which provided tax incentives for drug manufacturers.

I do not think I am willing to give up my pickup or many of my friends who drive pickup trucks are willing to do that either.

We cannot allow ourselves to go through another situation like we did in COVID where billions and billions of dollars were fraudulently taken.

I mean, unprecedented in the history of the United States.

The very things that you have to have to build a renewable structure--cement, steel, plastics--the majority of that is produced in China.

Under this current administration, gas prices have skyrocketed and Americans are definitely feeling the pain.

This headlong rush to renewables Europe engaged in created the energy crisis, not the war in Ukraine.

And we have this artificial target of trying to achieve net zero by 2050, which under no engineering scenario, no technologies scenario is achievable.