Cassidy Announces Opposition to Biden Anti-Energy Federal Reserve Nomination

Statement

U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, today announced his opposition to President Biden's nomination of Sarah Bloom Raskin, an avid anti-U.S. energy activist, to be Vice Chairman for Supervision and a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

"President Biden has nominated someone for the Federal Reserve who has made clear she wishes to use the power of the central bank to effectively destroy the U.S. oil and gas industry. It just so happens that this industry employs as much as 12.5% of people in my state. The jet fuel, the gasoline, the plastics--everything we use essential to a modern economy--relies upon a vibrant oil and gas industry. The reason Russia has so much leverage over Europe is because Russia supplies European countries with natural gas. Now the United States is bailing out Europe by sending them our natural gas, according to an article this morning in The New York Times," said Dr. Cassidy.

"For someone to be nominated who wishes to destroy the oil and gas industry, not on a rational basis, but based on a prejudice and a dream that we no longer need fossil fuel, is dangerous for the workers of Louisiana. It is dangerous for the consumers in this country. It is dangerous for our foreign policy and national security. In short, it is dangerous for the world. Our economy depends on clear-minded, nonpartisan monetary policies, not activists in the Fed carrying out an ideological and political agenda," concluded Dr. Cassidy.

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