Political Quotes

“Mr. President, last week, I came to the floor to talk about how the President's economic policies are failing to serve the lower and middle-income Americans he claims are his priority. The President talks about wanting to give American families ``a little more breathing room,'' but his Big Government, big spending policies are taking away Americans' breathing room, as cash-strapped families struggling with the effects of the President's historic inflation crisis can attest. Today, I want to talk about another set of the President's policies that aren't serving Americans, and that is the President's energy policy. Since the day he took office, President Biden has pursued an agenda that is hostile to conventional sources of energy; namely, oil and natural gas. He set the tone on his very first day in office when he canceled the Keystone XL Pipeline--an environmentally responsible pipeline project that was already underway, and was to be paired with $1.7 billion in private investment in renewable energy to fully offset--fully offset--its operating emissions. He also almost immediately froze new oil and gas leases on Federal land, sending a clear signal to oil and gas producers that his administration would be reluctant to work with them to increase American energy production.…”