[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 40 (Monday, March 7, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1316]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         BIDEN'S 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. Madam Speaker, this past weekend, on my way to a military 
medal presentation in Crossville, Tennessee, I stopped to fill my SUV 
with gas. Like many Americans, I was shocked to have to pay nearly $4 a 
gallon for gasoline.
  Putin's invasion of Ukraine has no doubt made this situation worse, 
but our skyrocketing gas prices are primarily due to President Biden's 
reversal of President Trump's highly successful energy policies that 
had oil and gas production high, gas pump prices low, had created 
hundreds of thousands of new energy jobs, and had created an energy-
independent United States for the first time in decades.
  Instead of admitting this mistake, ending the freeze on new oil and 
gas projects, and stopping the regulatory assault on new energy 
projects in the United States, the Biden administration has reportedly 
been secretly meeting with Venezuela and its corrupt authoritarian 
regime to discuss the possible lifting of sanctions against importing 
Venezuelan oil.
  We currently purchase more than half a million barrels of oil a day 
from Russia, which needs to stop immediately. Instead of replacing 
Russian oil with equally nefarious Venezuelan oil, why not re-create 
those jobs here in America.

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