[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 114 (Tuesday, July 12, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5948]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     PRESIDENT BIDEN MUST DO BETTER

  (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, I rise today as middle Tennesseans struggle to 
afford record-high gas prices caused by the Biden administration's 
antienergy prices.
  If you recall, in April of this year, President Biden announced he 
would be raiding the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to help ``ease the 
pain American families are facing at the pump.''
  Since then, the average price of a gallon of gasoline has risen from 
$4.20 a gallon to over $5 a gallon, while putting our national security 
at risk as the Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now at its lowest level 
since 1985.
  What is even more alarming is a new press report stating that 950,000 
barrels of the oil Mr. Biden took from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve 
were sold to a state-owned Chinese company. If this is true, it is 
difficult to find the words to adequately describe how utterly 
outrageous it is.
  President Biden must do better, and he must answer questions 
associated with this apparent sale of oil from our Strategic Petroleum 
Reserve to our most dangerous geopolitical adversary, China.

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