Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I welcome everyone to the first installment of House Republicans' fulfillment of their misguided, billionaire-funded, pro- polluter, drill, baby, drill agenda. I like Valentine's Day as much as anyone. I don't mean to be cynical, but what I don't do is introduce empty love letters to polluting industries masquerading as legislation. That is what we are here to do today. This bill we are considering is one massive letter to Big Oil signed by the House GOP. Meanwhile, Americans are grappling with the actual fallout from the White House's unconstitutional, illegal freeze on Federal funding across dozens of agencies and tariffs on our allies that will increase energy costs and inflation. Instead of addressing all of these things, we are here today with a little love letter for Valentine's Day from House Republicans to Big Oil. H.R. 26, the Protecting American Energy Production Act, pretends to ban Presidential fracking bans. Let me be clear: This bill is a solution in search of a nonexistent problem. President Trump is not going to ban fracking. President Biden didn't ban fracking. No President, past or present, has banned fracking. Of course, now we do have President Trump. Democrats are not election deniers. We acknowledge that President Trump won the election. He is our President, and he loves fracking. Who are we kidding by passing this bill pretending to stop him from banning fracking?…”