Providing That Section 11 of House Resolution 1224 Shall Have No Force or Effect

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Ms. SCHRIER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today because people in the district I represent and across the country are being crushed by skyrocketing gas prices.

Prices have been rising since this President got into office for healthcare, for groceries, and now for gas prices because of this reckless war of choice.

Our constituents deserve better. They deserve immediate relief. They deserve better than emptying their wallet every time they fill up at the pump.

As we know from watching other crises, Big Oil and Gas will take any opportunity to pad their profits, so Congress should act now to protect consumers. That is why I am offering this bill, the Lower Prices at the Pump Act, the commonsense solution to protect the American people from price gouging.

The bill I am offering prevents Big Oil from price gouging in case they attempt to take advantage of the economic uncertainty and instability created by the war with Iran. They have done it before, and they could do it again.

Mr. Speaker, I urge my Republican colleagues to join us to bring this bill up for a vote.

Our constituents are being crushed by prices across the board as it is, and President Trump has told us that he is too preoccupied with his ballroom to care.

We must protect consumers at the pump to protect them from big corporations who might try to pull a fast one.

Our jobs are to make lives easier, not harder, for Americans, and the time to act is exactly right now. That is why I am asking my colleagues to defeat the previous question so we can bring up this important bill.

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