[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 121 (Thursday, July 21, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H6926]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      PRESIDENT BIDEN SHOULD FIST-BUMP THE AMERICAN ENERGY WORKER

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, while President Biden is fist-bumping 
with the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Americans are still facing 
record-high prices at the gas pump.
  When he was campaigning, President Biden claimed he would crack down 
on Saudi leaders, and then he turns and shares a warm greeting with one 
before begging them to sell us their oil.
  President Biden showed weakness on the world stage, and he showed the 
American people he cares more about keeping up friendly appearances 
with OPEC than the well-being of the American people.
  Let's be clear: The Biden administration halted the Keystone XL 
pipeline on day one and destroyed 11,000 American jobs to line the 
pockets of OPEC oligarchs.
  Why else would President Biden be begging Saudi Arabia and other OPEC 
countries to increase oil production when producers and refiners right 
here on U.S. soil have struggled for months thanks to the Green New 
Deal agenda?
  Whatever happened to making America self-sufficient in energy? We are 
a country that can depend on ourselves for our energy, but the Biden 
administration is continuously doing whatever they can to block this 
from happening.
  Instead of traveling 8,000 miles across the ocean to beg for oil from 
others, he should continue the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline 
and the rest of our American infrastructure, support American workers, 
and maybe fist-bump them for a change.

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