I am proud to help introduce the Republican Study Committee Budget, a blueprint for conservative governance that will work to reshape our budget and boost the American economy. This budget is the solution to balance our budget and end out-of-control spending by unleashing American energy independence, cutting taxes, and securing our border. It includes my legislation to put
The rise in oil and gasoline prices can be attributed to many factors: increased demand, shortage of supply, and, as President Biden said recently, “Russia, Russia, Russia!”
talked about energy security and how important it was. and, by the way, for the past year ukrainian delegations have been to congress multiple times in my office. the first two times they talked about nord stream. they pleaded with us so tanks to fully sanction nord stream because they know how important it is to the leverage and the power that putin has. and so this is something that we have been saying since january 20th when our president assaulted the oil and gas industry. what we need to do right now is we need to ban russian oil imports. we need to put midland over moscow. we need to rescind all the bans on federal leasing, drilling, permitting. we need to certify the pipelines, and we need to get the domestic united states oil and gas to our partners throughout europe and the rest of the world. maria: yeah. congressman, you were on the ground in ukraine, you met with president zelenskyy, of you have
also come up with this legislation which you just mentioned, midland over moscow. why aren t we creating energy independence in the united states? this, obviously, we re at a turning point as we watch death and destruction in russia. do you think that this administration will change its stance on the climate change agenda? well, it s very unlikely, but i think this is an opportunity. it s very rare that a president gets a second or a third chance, but this is the chance to go ahead and reverse course, make a 180-degree turn. stop worshiping the climate change gods and get to reality. we know that energy security is national security. president zelenskyy knows that, the rest of the world knows that. we ve got to change course and make sure that every bit of american oil and gas that we have not only for our own domestic use that we become not just independent, maria, but that we become energy if dominant. that s the key here and that we put our own products ahead of