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 worst human…

May I inquire again as to the time left. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arkansas has 13 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Arizona has 5 minutes remaining.

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 from Texas…

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

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 Chair, I…

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 Congress that is actually incentivizing foreign production…

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.

This utopian idea of having our cake and eating it too, the ``not in my backyard'' mentality, it just won't work for the economy or the environment. That is why we need change. Mr. Chair, I yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from…

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 President…

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 the cost of the…

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 the gentleman…

It is unfortunate that this hearing is on a day when H.R. 1 is on the House Floor.