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On the recordApril 22, 2026
we need dispatchable power. Something happens when the government subsidizes and otherwise encourages nondispatchable power and punishes and discourages dispatchable power: The price of dispatchable power and power generally goes up. That is exactly what happened following the passage of the Democrat bill with the Orwellian name of the ``Inflation Reduction Act.'' The same year that was passed, in 2022--that bill, which encouraged and fostered nondispatchable power and discouraged dispatchable power--the cost of electric power went up. It went way up. It went up more than any year since the Energy Information Administration began tracking this data in 1984. That is what happens, and that is what they want to do more of. We need less of that. We are trying to turn it down. They are trying to accelerate into the turn in a way that would make energy more expensive.
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Bill Lee
Republican · Tennessee

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Discussing the impact of the Inflation Reduction Act on energy prices.

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