[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 65 (Thursday, April 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H1838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    BIDEN'S CLIMATE EXECUTIVE ORDER

  (Mrs. BOEBERT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mrs. BOEBERT. Madam Speaker, there are consequences to Biden's energy 
bans. They are job-killing impacts that affect my district, my State, 
and our Nation.
  There are two drilling rigs operating in western Colorado right now. 
That number was once as high as 112 and in the last 13 years there were 
as many as 80 rigs. An economic analysis from Colorado Mesa University 
found that each drilling rig in the region supports the creation of 208 
jobs. And now there are just two in the Piceance Valley.
  Madam Speaker, 9,000 jobs in the oil and gas industry have been lost 
in the last year. Keep in mind that that does not include the jobs that 
we have lost from industries serving the rigs and their workers. These 
9,000 jobs produce substantial paychecks for folks back home to feed 
their families and to put a roof over their head, and now they are 
gone.
  Madam Speaker, this hits our schools, where superintendents from back 
home have spoken out on the need for these funds. Colorado's oil and 
natural gas industry provided $839 million for K-12 schools in 2015 and 
2016.
  And that is why I have introduced the Protecting American Energy Jobs 
Act. My legislation will nullify Biden's executive orders.

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