[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 41 (Tuesday, March 8, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H1358]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   MAKING AMERICA ENERGY INDEPENDENT

  (Mr. GUEST asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUEST. Madam Speaker, as gas prices across the country continue 
to soar, and with President Biden's announcement to ban Russian oil 
imports, it is time that America looked to our own backyard to meet our 
energy needs.
  To ease the burden on hardworking Americans, we must increase 
domestic production to make America energy independent again.
  We can no longer allow Russia, Venezuela, or oil from the Middle East 
to meet our energy needs. The Biden administration must commit to an 
America first strategy in oil production.
  America must increase production so that we are not only energy 
independent but so that we can once again become a net exporter of oil 
and natural gas.
  We must drill America, refine America, and we must buy American oil. 
That is why I joined many of my Republican colleagues in a letter to 
President Biden requesting the administration open Federal lands to 
energy production, end unnecessary and burdensome bureaucratic 
regulations, and approve and expedite construction of the Keystone XL 
pipeline.
  President Biden must commit to these actions immediately to ease the 
burden on Americans at the pump.

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