Political Quotes

“Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Madam Speaker, I thank my friend from Florida for bringing that wisdom to the floor tonight. There has been a theme here this evening with all of my colleagues who have participated in this Special Order hour. We have an energy crisis, the latest crisis that has beset the American people because of terrible policy choices from this White House and the Democrats in Congress. It is just plain and simple, those are the objective facts. It seems like almost a decade ago now, but just a little over a year ago, if you rewind to the Trump years, you can recall, and everyone will know again more objective truth, objective facts, how well we were doing in all of these areas. President Biden came in and did exactly the opposite. I mean, when President Trump took office, he came in--I remember very vividly the first time he came and spoke with the House Republicans in our conference, and he told us, among the first commitments he made to us-- I mean, this is January of 2017. He was just taking office. We had just begun that Congress, and he came and spoke to us and said, ``I don't want to talk about energy independence anymore. I want to talk about energy dominance.'' Dominance, he said. Of course, from an energy State like mine in Louisiana, the Louisiana delegation was delighted to hear that because we know what it means not only for our State's economy but for the stability, the security of our entire country.…”