Providing for Consideration of H.R. Repealing of Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund; Providing for Consideration of H.R. Protecting American Energy Production Act; Providing for Consideration of H.R. Restoring American Energy Dominance Act; Providing for Consideration of H. Con. Res. Expressing the Sense of Congress That A Carbon Tax Would Be Detrimental to the United States Economy; Providing for Consideration of H. Res. Denouncing the Harmful, Anti-American Energy Policies of the Biden Administration; and Providing for Consideration of H.R. Creating Confidence in Clean Water Permitting Act

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Mr. LANGWORTHY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Reschanthaler), my colleague on the Rules Committee, for yielding me the time.

Contrary to what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim, this legislation before us today is about building a cleaner, more secure, more affordable energy future, where the United States is not dependent on foreign countries for its energy needs.

Let me be perfectly clear. The greatest beneficiary of the Biden administration's regulatory onslaught on our Nation's energy sector is China, the Communist country of China. The ones who will pay the biggest cost for President Biden and the left's asinine energy policies are the American people.

The climate agenda that the left is pushing onto this country through the Biden administration and through Democrats in my own State of New York will leave the American people poorer, less secure, and with fewer opportunities, full stop.

Who benefits the most from this administration's new rules on mineral leasing that make it more difficult for the United States to produce its energy and resource needs domestically? China, our biggest adversary and a country that cares little for the environmental health of our world.

When my Democratic colleagues claim that this legislation before us today will somehow loosen protections on our environment and keep our country away from reaching some arbitrary goals set by this administration, don't be fooled.

If this administration or the radical left actually cared about our global environment, my Democratic colleagues wouldn't be putting up roadblocks to safer, cleaner domestic energy production as Democrats are doing with the Bureau of Land Management's newest rules on mineral leasing.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle wouldn't be banning safe, job-creating hydraulic fracturing to produce cleaner, reliable natural gas as New York State Democrats have done, robbing communities across my district of incredible economic opportunities.

The left wouldn't be pushing Americans toward a battery-powered future while making it nearly impossible for our country to produce these very batteries, down to refining the rare earth minerals, domestically.

Democrats in Washington, Albany, and elsewhere, despite their talk of a cleaner future, are leaving us more dependent on foreign countries, including our biggest adversary, China, which has no qualms about pumping buckets of pollution into the air.

Mr. Speaker, energy future supported by my colleagues across the aisle is hypocritical, impossibly expensive for everyday Americans, and leaves this country at the mercy of foreign imports to satisfy our energy needs.

I strongly support this underlying legislation before us today because it will turn the ship around and ensure that our energy future is about economic opportunities, domestic security, and affordability for everyday Americans rather than satisfying the radical demands of a woke mob.

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