Political Quotes

“They are trying to repeal a very modest royalty reform and claw that back, and all that this reform would do is give taxpayers a fair return on the public resources on public land that this industry has been extracting on royalty rates that hadn't been touched for a century. Mr. Speaker, the reason that we increased those royalties was to finally confront the problem of fossil fuel companies with their subsidies extracting these public resources and sticking taxpayers with the bill to clean up their messes. This is not controversial. It is popular. Ninety-one percent of Western voters want to see oil and gas companies, not taxpayers, paying the bill for this cleanup. With these performative bills we are back at it again: a fake narrative that exalts the fossil fuel industry above everything and everyone else. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no.''”