Garret Graves actually said...

"Yes, this was totally, totally preventable, and it is a result of failed or really just no energy strategy."

"I have proposed amendments to bills in the Transportation Committee and the Natural Resources Committee to ban Russian oil now for about 3 years, and every single Democrat on the committee has opposed..."

"the lack of energy production, the lack of following the law and doing new lease sales, it makes your parish more vulnerable at a time when they are trying to recover."

"We are going to shut it down now. We are going to ban Russian oil now because it is politically popular."