Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk about the need for more American energy. Since his first day in office, Joe Biden has been on a war--an all- out war--against American energy. In his very first week in office, he stopped all new leases of oil and gas on public lands. That was completely illegal for the President to do that. A few months later, a Federal court told the President that what he had done was illegal. The law states that the American people may explore for energy on Federal lands, and the law calls for ways that it can be done. So here we are now, 15 months into the Biden administration, and, finally, Joe Biden has grudgingly agreed to follow the law. He is going to sell a bare minimum of leases to obey the court order. So how much is a bare minimum? Well, for the entire State of Utah--my neighboring State--they are only offering one single parcel to the entire State. And at the same time, Joe Biden is raising the cost of American energy production to the point that he is raising Federal royalty rates on the energy produced on that Federal land by 50 percent. When we produce less American energy, the American people end up paying more for the energy they use. This is Joe Biden's economy in a nutshell, the economy that has given us the highest cost inflation in 40 years. In the last hundred years, no President has ever raised these royalty fees for producing American energy until Joe Biden.…”