Big Oil is sitting on 9,000 approved, unused drilling permits on Federal lands. Folks are lying to you when they say we need more permits and more drilling. My amendment is simple. It lowers the permissible increase in Federal lands available for drilling from 10 percent to 0.1 percent. What we really need, Mr. Chair, are windfall profit taxes on Big Oil so that they stop price gouging our constituents at the pump. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to please support me on this amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.
Rashida Tlaib: “Big Oil is sitting on 9,000 approved, unused drilling permits on Federal lands. Folks are lying to you when they say we…”
On the recordJanuary 26, 2023
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