Steve Scalise: “I thank my friend from South Carolina for yielding and for his leadership on energy. We sure are going to miss your…”

“I thank my friend from South Carolina for yielding and for his leadership on energy. We sure are going to miss your voice. We have a few more months left before you leave Congress, but you have been a great advocate for American energy and for so many other forms of energy like nuclear power. Today, we are talking about how we can help those families who are struggling. I rise in strong support of H. Res. 987 by Mr. Newhouse and a number of other colleagues because if the policies of the Biden administration were working so well, as some would try to claim, why are families furious that they are paying about 40 percent more when they go to the gas station to fill up their cars? Why are they furious that when they pay their household electricity bills--if they can afford to pay their household electricity bills--they are paying over 30 percent more? It is because, from day one, when Joe Biden took the oath of office, he issued an all-out assault on American energy. For anybody who forgot or wants to glaze over it or say it didn't happen or ask what they are talking about, the good news is we actually documented all of those specific actions in this resolution, Mr. Speaker, because it is President Biden who took these actions. {time} 1315 Day one, he canceled the Keystone Pipeline. Now, what does that mean? That would have been about 11,000 American jobs. You know what it also would have meant?…”