Improving Interagency Coordination for Pipeline Reviews Act

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Mr. LANDSMAN. Mr. Speaker, I thank the ranking member for yielding time.

Mr. Speaker, it is simple. The bill weakens States' rights and their ability to manage clean water. It essentially says: Look, we will send these pipelines through our communities and through our States. We don't want to hear anything from these communities. We don't want them to raise objections, even if it is around the quality of water and the quality of air.

It is also true that it doesn't fundamentally address the larger issue, or a big issue, of the rising costs of energy and the impact that the global trade wars that this administration has pursued has had on the rising costs of utility bills.

For this reason, at the appropriate time, I will offer a motion to recommit this bill back to committee. If the House rules had permitted, I would have offered an amendment to this bill, requiring the Department of Energy to tell the American people in a report how this administration's illegal tariffs, these trade wars, have raised prices on electricity and gas.

The Joint Economic Committee estimates that families have already paid $1,200 more this year because of the tariffs. The tariffs and the trade wars have jacked up prices, and that includes energy prices. We need accountability. The American people deserve to know how much this is costing them so that they can push on us to end these trade wars and the high cost of living, including energy costs.

Mr. SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Ohio?

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Mr. LANDSMAN. Mr. Speaker, I hope my colleagues will join me in voting for the motion to recommit.

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Mr. LANDSMAN. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.

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Mr. LANDSMAN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.

The yeas and nays were ordered.

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