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On the recordFebruary 16, 2022
I come to the floor today to specifically talk about Americans' need for more American energy. For the last year, the American people have been suffering from ongoing Joe Biden inflation. They are paying the price, they are feeling the pain, and it all started on day 1 of the Biden administration, when he took out his Executive order pen, and he killed a pipeline bringing energy from Canada to the United States. And as this war on American energy has continued, we are now at a point where inflation is the worst it has been in 40 years. So it is no surprise that the President's approval rating has dropped to a low of only 40 percent in America. Well, this incredible rise in prices for energy, as well as all of the other components--whether it is gas, whether it is groceries--but if energy gets more expensive, we know that it costs more to manufacture things, it costs more to grow things, it costs more to transport things from where they are grown or manufactured to market. So much of this inflation has been brought on as a result of the Joe Biden policies related specifically to American energy. When you look at the laws that he has promoted, the executive actions that he has taken from day 1, going all the way up to a speech he gave just yesterday, this is a President who is dancing to the tune of the climate elitists and wants to keep American energy in the ground. Energy prices are up overall about 30 cents on the dollar since Joe Biden took over.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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govinfo.gov
Feb 16, 2022

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