Political Quotes

“in this letter, signed by 40 Senators, we called out the Biden administration for refusing to impose sanctions on entities involved in the construction of this very pipeline. It is a lengthy letter, and I am not going to read the whole thing, but let me point out, the letter says this: The failure of [this] Administration to identify and impose new sanctions signals its willingness to allow President Putin to gain a stranglehold over Europe's gas [supply] and increase its geopolitical leverage. We call on the Administration to correct its misguided actions by quickly and fully implementing the sanctions mandated by U.S. law. It has been over 6 months, and President Biden still refuses to follow the law. Through his inaction, President Biden is gifting Russia a new geopolitical weapon. And one of the things I found most astonishing, in terms of this administration taking us from energy dominance to energy dependence, is what happened just last month. The Biden administration, seeing the impact of rising energy costs and rising gasoline costs--people in Wyoming paying more than $25 extra every time they fill their tank compared to the day that President Biden came into office--he said: We need to do something. His National Security Advisor actually went to say: We need to ask OPEC Plus to produce more oil and to produce more energy. Well, who is OPEC Plus? Well, it is Saudi Arabia, and it is Russia.…”