In Pennsylvania, of course, we stand on top of hundreds and hundreds of years of our natural resources that are abundant and readily available. They are cleaner than any other place on the planet, and we have got an administration that says: Keep it in the ground, don't use it. Madam Speaker, half of Pennsylvania if you had gone back 20 years ago looked like the 1950s, maybe not half of Pennsylvania, but a good portion of the north central portion of Pennsylvania because there were no jobs. The leftist policies, of course, in Pennsylvania chased all the opportunity away, and families were struggling to hold on to their farms. Then horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing came into favor, and these farms and these communities were saved and brought into the 21st century. The Obama administration and this administration has come in and said, oh, no. Back to poverty for you. You are not going to be able to afford to heat your home. And if you are, guess what? You are going to be making a choice between heating your home this winter and feeding your family, all by design, all on purpose, and all intentional by this administration. It is unacceptable, and as my good friend from Texas said, we are being asked in the next few days here, whenever they come up with whatever they come up with, to keep funding this and to keep funding that kind of policy. Why would we provide one vote for it? There is not one Republican vote.…
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