Political Quotes

“While I understand my colleague from Oregon, where he stands on this issue, there are just some factual things that need to be checked on that. One, he said that we are the No. 1 exporter of gas. That is just not true. Russia is the No. 1 exporter of gas. When they say production has increased, that is actually not accurate either. Could we have been the largest liquefied natural gas exporter? Yes. That was until the permits for the pipelines to go to export terminals in Louisiana were canceled, which put a lot of our allies in Europe in a situation to where now they had to go buy gas from a bad actor that is right now invading Ukraine called Russia. Our allies do not want to be dependent, obviously, on Russia. They would love to have our gas. And as far as being the No. 1 seller to China with crude and refined products, it is not true again. At current rate, Iran is the No. 1 seller to China, and they are the ones that are buying it because of the Biden-Harris administration being extremely weak on the sanctions that we put on Iran under the Trump administration--which now Iran is actively funding the Houthis and Hamas and terrorist organizations all around the world. What we are saying is: Let our allies count on us. We have more reserves underneath our feet, and we can produce it cleaner and more efficient than OPEC, than Russia, than Iran. Our allies want to do business with us, and our economy desperately needs it. We are in a recession, and no one is denying that.…”