Cornyn on Dems' Energy Plan: Drive Up Prices at Home, Ask for Handouts Abroad

Statement

Today U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, issued the following statement responding to reports of a letter Senate Democrats sent urging the Administration to ask Saudi Arabia to boost its oil production:

"Rather than approve the Keystone pipeline, the Democrats' energy plan now calls for the most powerful nation in the free world to politely ask other countries for more oil and cross our fingers.

"Just as his own cabinet officials publicly sought, gas prices have nearly doubled since President Obama took office to near-European levels around the United States.

"An "all of the above' energy strategy starts with signing off on Keystone and tapping into our own domestic resources, which the President could do with the simple stroke of a pen."

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