Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk about our Nation's energy policy and the crisis that we find ourselves in as the cost of energy continues to go up and up and up. Right now, gas prices are nearly double what they were the day that Joe Biden became President of the United States. So you ask: Why is this happening? That is what consumers, that is what people in my home State of Wyoming are asking about. What has happened? How is it that it has gone up so much? Sure, there is the war in Ukraine, but the prices have been going up day by day by day after Joe Biden became President, and the reason, I tell people at home, is because Joe Biden has declared war on American energy--the policies of this administration, the policies of the Democrats in this body and across the way in the House. On day No. 1, Joe Biden shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline; he shut down oil and gas leases on Federal lands; and he shut down the exploration for energy in the Arctic. My colleague the senior Senator from Alaska, who previously had chaired the Energy Committee in the Senate, has said that we are actually, in the United States, using more energy from Russia, more oil from Russia than we are from Alaska, her home State, a State in the United States. Now we see the President's appointees making it almost impossible to build gas pipelines.…”