Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk about the Biden energy crisis that is affecting our country. Now, Joe Biden has been threatening to declare a climate emergency. Democrats from New England, Members of this body, have been practically begging him to do so. They actually went to Massachusetts with him last week to try to twist his arm. Democrats say this would give Joe Biden even more legal authority to restrict American energy. So that is what the Democrats want these days: less American energy--more expensive American energy, less American energy, and more power for Joe Biden. Well, I have got bad news for the Democrats. The Supreme Court has ruled very recently, less than a month ago, that energy regulation requires ``clear congressional authorization.'' Congress writes the laws. It is the President who is just supposed to carry out the laws that are written by Congress. The President doesn't have the authority to just do whatever he wants by saying we have a climate crisis and then calling it an emergency. But Democrats are far too eager to give more and more of the Senate's power to the least popular President in the last 70 years. Democrats say we have a crisis right now. Well, they are right about the fact that we have a crisis. We have a lot of crises in this country, and they are crises because of Joe Biden and because of the Democrats and the policies of this administration. We have an energy crisis. We have an inflation crisis.…”