The Anti-American Energy Agenda

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Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on my colleagues in the Senate to pass the Lower Energy Costs Act, otherwise known as H.R. 1.

The House passed H.R. 1 on March 30, but like so many other of our bills that we have sent over to the Senate, it seems like they fall into a black hole, never to be heard of or talked about again.

What does H.R. 1 do? Well, I am glad you asked. H.R. 1 reforms the permitting process, the permitting process not only to build out domestic production here in the U.S. but reforms the process allowing us to drill for oil and gas here in America.

In short, it stops the radical, anti-American energy agenda that the Biden administration has been pushing that is making us dependent on foreign countries. It reverses that, and it makes us energy independent again.

Here is a fact for you. The national price for gasoline has not been under $3 a gallon since March of 2021. Now, you contrast that with the Trump administration when the price of gas never even reached $3 a gallon.

It is this war on American energy that all started when the Biden administration revoked the permits for the Keystone pipeline and then halted all permits on new oil and gas drilling in the U.S.

It is this government overreach, these excess regulations, that are hurting the American families out there, let alone harming our national security. That is why the Lower Energy Costs Act reverses all of that.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues over in the Senate to get off the pickleball court, get back in the Chamber, do your job, and pass H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act.

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