I'm sorry that those comments cause him problems, because it was things that was conveyed to me from a number of places that we were -- and look, you can go back to those days after January 6, there are a lot of reports floating around.

It may actually be illegal, what he's doing.

Yes. That`s -- I mean, it`s potentially illegal what he`s doing.

Yeah. That`s -- I mean, it`s potentially illegal what he`s doing.

President Biden walked in day one with an agenda to kill American energy.

President has talked about and others have talked about that, frankly, don't tell the picture of what the President is also doing to ensure that you cannot develop on those lands. You cannot develop with those 9,000 leases. And I will go…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the majority leader of the House.

As we look at the schedule for next week, obviously, there are a lot of concerns about the continuing rising price of gasoline that we have been seeing for the last year and a half. President Biden talked about some things that he will do…

A number of problems with the way that the President's plan was described is that that is not what the President has done. The President has worked aggressively through many of his Federal agencies to, in fact, block the production of oil…

Clearly the gentleman and I disagree on many of these items. Drilling in America is the cleanest way to produce oil in the world. If it is going to come from Russia, which I don't want, if it is going to come from any dictator, they…

For correction, that is not what I did. I actually went through how those 9,000 leases are being blocked by the President from being utilized properly.

But the gentleman was saying it wasn't bid on; the oil companies didn't want to do it. They did. They wanted to invest in America. An environmental group went to block it and got a court to go along with them. The normal practice is the…