Biden's Assault on American Energy

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Mr. SCALISE. Madam Speaker, I thank my friend from Pennsylvania, Dr. Joyce, for yielding and for leading this effort to defend American energy.

Madam Speaker, you might wonder: Why are we on the House floor defending American energy? Who could possibly, in the United States Congress, be opposed to American energy?

Unfortunately, as we have seen this year, from President Biden to Speaker Pelosi to this whole Democrat majority, they have had an all- out assault on American energy.

It started day one when President Biden took the oath of office. That day, he drove down Pennsylvania Avenue and started signing executive orders to destroy America's energy independence.

It started with the Keystone pipeline. It was a great relationship between the United States and our great friend, Canada, our neighbor from the north, a pipeline to bring energy to America where it could be refined in a really good, environmentally protective way in the United States of America. But President Biden said no.

You would think he said no because he is just against pipelines in general, except just weeks later, President Biden green-lighted a pipeline in Russia, from Russia to Germany. So, President Biden was against American energy jobs and American pipelines, but he was okay with helping Russia, giving a gift to Russia.

He kept going on and on. He put a moratorium on drilling in the United States, but then, just weeks ago, he tried to ban not only American energy but then he goes and begs OPEC and Russia to produce more oil. You can't make this stuff up.

If American energy is so bad, why are you begging OPEC and Russia to produce fossil fuels? They are either good or they are bad.

The question here, Madam Speaker, is: Where should energy be made?

If you look at this whole global warming, Green New Deal push by the President to increase taxes on Americans, you wonder why Americans are paying 40 percent more for gasoline at the pump. It is because of President Biden's assault on American energy.

But he has given OPEC a free pass. In fact, he is giving OPEC more leverage by cutting off our supply and letting them increase their supply.

Now, you might think Russia or Saudi Arabia or China came up with this crazy strategy. No, it was President Biden and Speaker Pelosi and a Democrat Congress that came up with this, and you are seeing it in their tax proposal, this crazy $5.5 trillion massive tax-and-spend proposal we are going to see come into play this week on the House floor--more assaults on American energy.

Who pays? I will tell you who pays: the American consumer, families, hardworking families. In fact, the people hit the hardest are the lowest income people.

Remember when President Biden promised if you make less than $400,000, you won't pay a dime in new taxes? Sounded great, except he is already pledging to break that promise by increasing taxes on, among many other things, natural gas.

That is right. If you use natural gas to heat your home or cool your home, you are going to pay more, double digits more, every single month under President Biden's plan. That is right. He broke that promise.

Then if you look at all of his other assaults on American energy, if it was all about carbon emissions and saving the planet, well, guess what? Those foreign countries that we were talking about, whether it is Russia or OPEC nations, they emit more carbon to make the same oil. To produce oil emits carbon.

In America, we actually do it better than anywhere else in the world. If you want to reduce carbon emissions, make more of it here in America, not less.

Why would you want to give a gift to countries that don't have the same standards we have?

Too often, you see liberals on the other side wanting to bash America every single day. You know, hit America, attack America.

Enough is enough. People are figuring this out. They are paying more at the pump. They are paying more at the grocery store. They are paying more for everything because of these radical assaults on American energy and American entrepreneurialism.

Free market capitalism is under assault by Big Government socialism. That is what this fight is about.

We are going to continue to stand up for American energy and to get the facts out. If you are going to make stuff anywhere in the world, if you want to produce steel, make it in America, because if you make it in China or India or some other country, they emit five times more carbon.

Yet, what President Biden is doing in his policies is attacking that very American energy that works to create great jobs here at home to rebuild our middle class, to help those hardworking families who are sick and tired of paying more, and stop giving gifts to foreign countries like China.

I thank my colleague from Pennsylvania for his leadership.

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