More Americans died just in 2021 from fentanyl than the entire Vietnam War.

This is a poisoning problem, and it is poisoning almost 80,000 Americans a year, and it is coming from two specific organizations: the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco Cartel.

We have a common enemy in the Mexican drug cartels.

We're working on legislation together for the authorization of military force against the cartels because they are a military force.

This is a field hearing on the border because fentanyl comes across the southern border.

I mean, we are fighting for the disenfranchised here, for people who can't afford to fill up their tanks, and yet all but guaranteeing that they can't do so for almost no benefit.

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for his leadership on this important issue because the unelected career bureaucrats are at it again. They are launching attacks on our constitutional rights, the constitutional rights of law-abiding gun…

Provide energy to the American people that fits three criteria: reliable, affordable, and clean.

They're supporting Democrats.

I would argue that it is not. Fundamentally, this bill took a bunch of taxpayer money, about $257 billion to be exact, and it invested it in intermittent energy sources, solar and wind to be exact.

Although I did notice that in the final hours of passing this bill, everyone basically agreed that this was not about reducing inflation, and instead it began being branded as a climate and energy bill.