On the recordAugust 6, 2022
to the Members of the body, if you think America needs a new gas tax, then your ship has come in. Vote for the Democratic bill because, believe it or not, these people over there want to raise gas taxes right now. The last time they tried to help you was the American rescue act. And here is what the Vice President said: Help has arrived for the families who have struggled to put food on their table, for the small businesses that have struggled to keep their doors open. Help has arrived. She said that in March. Inflation was 2.6 percent. Help has arrived. It is 9.1 percent. This bill will increase gas taxes 16.4 cents on every barrel of imported oil and petroleum, and every barrel of crude oil found in America, to be refined in America, will have an additional 16.4 cents- per-barrel-tax increase. This is insane. This is stupid. If you like high gas prices, vote for them. If you want to lower prices at the pump, vote for my amendment. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oregon.
