Political Quotes

“Mr. President, thank you and thank you to the Senator from Alabama for doing this. I think it is very important that we understand what is happening in our economy right now with the energy issue and the energy crisis we find ourselves in. And so the bill that I bring forward today is Protecting American Energy Production Act. It is real simple. It allows us to be energy independent. The backbone of our economy is energy, and if you have high energy costs, which we have had a 37-percent increase in energy under this current administration, you obviously are going to have inflation increase because energy is the backbone of our economy. You cannot make a product, nor can you deliver the product, without factoring in the cost of energy. With a 37-percent energy increase over the last 4 years, we have to bring back that resilience. We have to bring back that energy independence. And the way we do that is we understand real numbers. For instance, in 2019, fracking, which our current Vice President has been on record saying that she wants to ban fracking, in 2019, fracking accounted for 63 percent of our total crude oil production and 75 percent of our natural gas supply. Underneath the current administration, we have seen a significant decline in fracking wells.…”