Recognizing the Significance of Community College Month in April

Floor Speech

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Mr. LEE. Mr. President, we need dispatchable power. Something happens when the government subsidizes and otherwise encourages nondispatchable power and punishes and discourages dispatchable power: The price of dispatchable power and power generally goes up.

That is exactly what happened following the passage of the Democrat bill with the Orwellian name of the ``Inflation Reduction Act.'' The same year that was passed, in 2022--that bill, which encouraged and fostered nondispatchable power and discouraged dispatchable power--the cost of electric power went up. It went way up. It went up more than any year since the Energy Information Administration began tracking this data in 1984. That is what happens, and that is what they want to do more of. We need less of that. We are trying to turn it down. They are trying to accelerate into the turn in a way that would make energy more expensive.

So under the provisions of section 305(b) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, I raise a point of order that the amendment offered is not germane.

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