[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 189 (Wednesday, October 27, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5937]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      PRESIDENT BIDEN MUST ACT TO AVERT AN IMPENDING ENERGY CRISIS

  (Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, this fall along with the cooler temperatures 
that autumn always brings, Tennesseans and Americans all across the 
country will be subjected to record-breaking prices to heat our homes.
  Under the Biden administration, costs for natural gas, the most 
common resource for heating our homes, has skyrocketed.
  With inflation at a 30-year high, families are already stretched thin 
as they pay more at the grocery store and at the gas pump, but it 
doesn't stop there.
  Families are now expected to pay more in energy costs to heat their 
homes; as much as 54 percent for some households for the fall and 
winter months.
  Rather than confronting this burgeoning energy crisis before it is 
too late, President Biden and Democrats are proposing disastrous energy 
policies that are bad for the economy, bad for the national security, 
and bad for Americans.
  Included in their more than $5 trillion social spending agenda is a 
natural gas tax and bans on domestic energy and mineral production, 
which will cause us to obtain these vital resources from OPEC, Russia, 
and even China.

  As Democrats continued to push their tax-and-spend agenda, it is 
middle- and low-income families who will be hit the hardest by far left 
energy policies.
  President Biden must act now to avert this impending energy crisis.

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