Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk about the need that we have here in this country for more energy--and specifically, more American energy. On Thursday, Leader Schumer and Nancy Pelosi held a press conference, and they announced they had finally come up with an energy plan. After nearly a year--a year of Joe Biden's energy crisis where he killed the Keystone XL Pipeline, struck down leasing--it is good to see they finally have a plan. It turns out this official Democrat energy plan is not going to create one more drop of American energy. So what will the plan do? Well, if you look at it, you will see it sends bureaucrats--unelected, unaccountable, heavy-handed bureaucrats--to shake down energy companies. Instead of producing more American energy, they want more Federal investigations into American energy. It won't lower the price of energy--no, not by a single penny. If anything, it might actually increase energy costs across our country. People in Wyoming this past weekend were paying $4 a gallon for gasoline. It doesn't take a Federal investigation to figure out what is wrong here with energy in America. We know why prices are up: supply and demand. Very simple. Demand for energy is up, and supply is not. Supply is actually down. Yet, after a year of high prices, Democrats still refuse to admit it, ignoring inflation, not facing the facts that we have the American energy in the ground here and they won't let us get it out.…”