Providing for Congressional Disapproval of the Rule Submitted By the Environmental Protection Agency Relating to ``Waste Emissions Charge for Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems: Procedures for Facilitating Compliance, Including Netting and Exemptions''

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Mr. STAUBER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.J. Res. 35 which will overturn the disastrous Biden administration's natural gas tax on the hardworking American people.

During a time in which energy demand across the United States and the entire world is growing exponentially, the Federal Government should make it easier to produce ever cleaner, reliable, and affordable energy. Rather than supporting domestic energy production, the Biden administration and my friends on the other side of the aisle used the so-called Inflation Reduction Act to levy an unnecessary tax on natural gas, which ultimately fell on American people to pay, simply to try and kill the domestic natural gas industry.

Mr. Speaker, do you know what is the largest factor that has led to global emissions being reduced in recent years? It has been the increased use of American natural gas, both here in the United States and around the world. Oil and natural gas produced in the Gulf of America is 43 percent cleaner than oil and natural gas produced elsewhere around the world.

The natural gas tax won't stop the use of all natural gas. It will simply stop the use of American natural gas. This tax will make it harder for hardworking Americans to pay for their soaring energy bills and force us to utilize more natural gas and energy produced by foreign adversarial nations who have far inferior environmental and labor standards.

A natural gas tax is a completely misguided tax on the working American people that will hurt their bottom line and benefit Vladimir Putin. I urge my colleagues to join me in supporting this resolution.

Mr. Speaker, the Biden administration has been the most antidomestic energy-producing administration and the most antimining administration in the history of this country. We are going to turn it around.

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