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On the recordJuly 23, 2024
This is not about looking backwards. It is about looking forward. That is the whole point. We are going to talk about, oh, we are going to have 400 million people or 450 million people, great. Fine. We should grow as a country. By the way, we should have more kids. That is a different conversation and a different debate. Let's grow as a country. Fantastic. Do you know what you need? Power. Do you know what building we are sitting in right now? One powered by natural gas. Do you know what most of the hospitals and places in Texas that are functioning right now in the great State of Texas are powered by? Natural gas. Do you know what we could be powered more by? Nuclear. Do you know why we are not? Crazy ideas mostly from radical, progressive Democrats who don't want to deal with the fact that we could actually safely have nuclear power. The fact is, instead, we want to litter our continent with wind farms and solar farms which are inefficient and unreliable, demonstrably and proven to be so. That is the truth. The fact here is we just want to have reliable power. Even if you accept this trope that somehow we are having significantly more storms----
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Chip Roy
Republican · Texas

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