[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]




              HIGH ENERGY COSTS HURT THOSE MOST VULNERABLE

  (Mr. OBERNOLTE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. OBERNOLTE. Madam Speaker, I fear that the recent actions by the 
administration to end energy development on Federal land will come at 
an extremely high cost to the people of the United States, and that 
cost will be borne disproportionately by the segment of our population 
who can least afford to pay it.
  As an example, I offer my home State of California, which, according 
to the United States Census Bureau, has the highest rate of poverty of 
any State in the country. That poverty rate is driven in no small part 
by the extremely high cost of energy in California.
  To take those misguided policies and extend them to the rest of the 
country would be an abdication of our responsibility to protect the 
most vulnerable segment of our population, the poor and the working 
poor, on whose backs the burden of higher energy costs will be felt 
most keenly.

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