August Pfluger: “I am proud to offer H.R. 1949 today, Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act. It has been a long time coming. For 4…”

“I am proud to offer H.R. 1949 today, Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act. It has been a long time coming. For 4 years, we suffered as a nation under the Biden administration's disastrous energy policies that put our energy security and the security of our allies at serious risk. The White House launched a whole-of-government assault on American energy production: slow-rolling permits; killing infrastructure projects, like pipelines; and, most importantly, pandering to radical climate activists. Then they delivered perhaps the most damaging and egregious move of all: They banned new exports on LNG. This wasn't to help the environmental laws or to lower prices for American families. It was to satisfy the radical green activists. Let me be clear that this ban put politics over people by jeopardizing the American economy and handing Vladimir Putin a lifeline as our European allies were forced to scramble for energy. That was not leadership. That was failure. It gets worse. After independent experts uncovered major flaws in the study used to justify the freeze, the Biden administration doubled down, and senior officials deliberately hid reports that completely contradicted their argument. The administration knew the truth, and they hid it. They buried it. Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve the truth that exporting American LNG strengthens our country.”