August Pfluger: “Thank you to my good friend from Louisiana. Crisis after crisis after crisis. Madam Speaker, I rise against the extreme…”

“Thank you to my good friend from Louisiana. Crisis after crisis after crisis. Madam Speaker, I rise against the extreme anti-American policies that we see right now that are being discussed in this forum, in this House. I ask two simple questions of the President: Are you making us more secure? Are you making us more prosperous? And the answer to that is no. Unequivocally, no. We have got an anti-American energy movement in this country that is going to devastate every American. It is going to leave us cold, dark, and hungry; it is going to embolden our adversaries; and it is going to harm our environment. This administration is taking a hard line against American energy by canceling thousands of pipeline jobs, by canceling drilling permits, by kneecapping our energy producers with targeted tax increases and harmful regulations. Americans are already feeling the pain of the Biden energy crisis at the gas pump, at the grocery store, where we see exorbitant prices that are continuing to skyrocket. Just today, I had a Democrat colleague who said: In my district, small businesses are feeling the pain everywhere. I said: Well, push back. Stop this madness. Any vote for reconciliation is a vote against the American worker; it is a vote against American energy. To make matters worse, heating bills are forecasted to be 54 percent higher in 2021.…”