Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Speaker, I heard my friends talk about how it has been innovation that has led us to emissions reductions. I find it fascinating and certainly look forward to that discussion. But, Mr. Speaker, right now, just a few months ago, the United States was entirely energy independent. We produced all the resources that we needed to power our economy and to power our transportation sector. What this bill does is begins forcing everything, manipulating markets in a direction that doesn't work. Don't take my word for it. Let me give you examples about the State of California that has tried to do the very thing that this bill does. The State of California currently has electricity prices that are twice those of my home State. I ask the American citizens, Mr. Speaker, which American is asking to have their electricity bills doubled? By the way, when you increase demand for electricity, the price goes up even higher. When you try to electrify the entire vehicle fleet, then prices go up. Do you think they got a plan for this? There is a study in this very amendment that tries to study how you are going to incorporate vehicles into the energy and transportation sector. They don't even know how they are going to do it, yet they are charging ahead boldly under this en bloc amendment. Another great one in here: During the committee process on this, I offered an amendment, Mr. Speaker, to establish national centers of resilience.…”