Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I want to state the obvious: The United States has real energy needs. We have to produce enough reliable energy to make utility bills affordable for families and to bring online the advanced manufacturing and data centers that are powering our economy and will power our economy into the future. We are seeing this in Arizona. The demand for energy keeps going up. It is going up rather quickly. Now, here is the good news: The United States is producing more energy than ever before. We are using everything at our disposal. We are finally bringing the manufacturing of solar panels and batteries and wind turbines back to America. Now, that creates great-paying jobs across the country, jobs that you can actually raise a family on, jobs that are in places like Arizona and Oklahoma, Colorado and Texas. We are investing to develop new technologies to produce even more energy. Now, for years, my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have raised very legitimate concerns about the need to reform our permitting processes to cut redtape and unleash American manufacturing. Well, Mr. President, here is the bad news: President Trump is now throwing redtape around our energy production, which will raise utility bills and send American manufacturing back overseas. One of his first actions as President--one of the first things he did--was to block approvals of new wind projects on Federal land and then freeze loans and freeze grants for clean energy projects.…”