Political Quotes

“--I joined my colleagues Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Bruce Westerman in offering an American energy solution. While Biden's solution is to buy oil from Venezuela and Saudi Arabia, our solution is to put blue-collar workers, American workers, to work here at home and develop our God-given natural resources. We have the ability to bring costs down by unleashing the economic engine of American energy production. We can do that by defeating this previous question and passing the American Energy Independence from Russia Act. Mr. McGOVERN. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. We are all trying to figure out a way to alleviate the burden of energy costs on consumers. I mean, it is brutal for a lot of families in this country. Listening to some of the speeches here, I kind of feel like we should have an amendment that would require Members of Congress to take a basic course in economics to understand how supply and demand works. Again, the oil companies have 9,000 leases that they are not utilizing as we speak. I include in the Record an article titled ``Exclusive: Oil companies' profits soared to $174 billion this year as U.S. gas prices rose.'' [From the Guardian, Dec. 6, 2021] Exclusive: Oil Companies' Profits Soared to $174bn This Year as US Gas Prices Rose (By Oliver Milman) The largest oil and gas companies made a combined $174bn in profits in the first nine months of the year as gasoline prices climbed in the US, according to a new report.…”