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Dusty Johnson: I would just like to offer a few words of rebuttal for the Democratic leader. He talked about high oil prices. He didn't…

On the recordMarch 18, 2026
I would just like to offer a few words of rebuttal for the Democratic leader. He talked about high oil prices. He didn't mention the fact that when President Biden was in office and Democrats were in charge, in June of 2022, the national average gas price reached almost $5 a gallon. That same month, inflation was 9.1 percent, a 40-year high. That wasn't because President Biden was having to do something hard, to take care of the menace that Iran was. President Biden was coddling Iran, pumping billions of dollars into their economy, into their military, into their proxies. Gasoline was $5 a gallon because of their war on fossil fuels, because of Democrat policies. So I need to correct the record there. The second point I want to make is, I heard the Democrat leader say that Democrats are--I think this is what he said--are in favor of commonsense voter ID. Well, if that is the case, I am sure we would be happy to work with them to deliver that, because 80 percent of the American people agree with the picture ID to vote--80 percent. It is the Democrats who refuse to put any kind of controls to ensure the security of our elections. But I think he completely mischaracterized what the Senator from Utah's bill, the SAVE America Act, actually does. It is not going to make it harder to vote. It is going to make it harder to cheat, because Americans do not want their legitimate vote canceled by a fraudulent one.
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Dusty Johnson
Republican · South Dakota

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Responding to comments about oil prices and voter ID legislation during a floor debate.

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