[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 186 (Thursday, December 1, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8675]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




           IT IS TIME TO RETURN TO AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE

  (Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, last night, the temperature 
in my hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania, was 28 degrees Fahrenheit.
  As a harsh winter arrives, the Biden administration has failed to 
address the skyrocketing heating prices that are set to affect people 
across the entirety of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
  In the past year, the price of fuel oil has risen 86 percent. This is 
the direct result of President Biden's decision to implement Green New 
Deal initiatives instead of using the energy that is under the feet of 
my constituents, the coal, the oil, the Marcellus shale, and the 
natural gas that are in Pennsylvania and that can help drive down the 
prices this winter.
  It is time to enact commonsense permitting reforms. It is time to 
return to American energy dominance, instead of using taxpayer dollars 
to subsidize windmills and solar panels that fail to produce the 
baseload power that Americans want and, right now, facing winter, that 
Americans need.

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