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On the recordJanuary 27, 2023
Yesterday I introduced an amendment that would take away the President's emergency power to sell our oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve and give that authority back to Congress. Since Joe Biden has become President, he has abused his emergency power and sold American oil to our enemies. China was the number one buyer. President Biden abused his power to sell our oil and reduce gas prices so that the midterm elections would swing Democrats' way. It is a shame to trick the American people just to win an election. No President should be able to use their emergency powers for politics. While my amendment failed yesterday, it opened up discussions on how to solve this problem. While our leadership was working with me to protect America's Strategic Petroleum Reserve, Democrats and the mocking Hill media were making fun of me for having a failed amendment. I want to say this: True success comes through failure. There is one thing that needs to be pointed out about our new Republican majority: We are much different than Republican majorities of the past. We aren't afraid of conflict, of disagreements in the public's eye. We have already proven that. What all of us are afraid of is not being a successful Republican majority for the American people and stopping the Democrats' America last policies.…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene
Republican · Georgia

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