On the recordSeptember 27, 2021
Madam Speaker, I thank my friend from Pennsylvania, Dr. Joyce, for yielding and for leading this effort to defend American energy. Madam Speaker, you might wonder: Why are we on the House floor defending American energy? Who could possibly, in the United States Congress, be opposed to American energy? Unfortunately, as we have seen this year, from President Biden to Speaker Pelosi to this whole Democrat majority, they have had an all- out assault on American energy. It started day one when President Biden took the oath of office. That day, he drove down Pennsylvania Avenue and started signing executive orders to destroy America's energy independence. It started with the Keystone pipeline. It was a great relationship between the United States and our great friend, Canada, our neighbor from the north, a pipeline to bring energy to America where it could be refined in a really good, environmentally protective way in the United States of America. But President Biden said no. You would think he said no because he is just against pipelines in general, except just weeks later, President Biden green-lighted a pipeline in Russia, from Russia to Germany. So, President Biden was against American energy jobs and American pipelines, but he was okay with helping Russia, giving a gift to Russia. He kept going on and on.…





