[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 186 (Thursday, December 1, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8705]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   STRENGTHENING THE AMERICAN ECONOMY

  (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, why would President Biden rather meet our 
energy needs by negotiating with Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, nations 
that regularly imprison political dissidents and engage in torture and 
execution, than mobilize our own American energy sector and economy?
  Why should we support the economies of these brutal dictatorships 
while destroying our domestic oil production, which could supply all 
the energy we would ever need, plus our friends across the sea?
  Instead, burdensome regulations and disincentives to invest in it are 
what we get.
  At this moment, millions of Uyghurs are suffering horrifically in 
concentration camps. Thousands of Chinese protesters are reacting 
against these brutal, harsh zero-COVID policies in China, yet America 
continues to be dependent on China's supply chains.
  To seriously challenge China's atrocious human rights record, we must 
expand U.S. manufacturing and assert our own economic competitiveness 
and also stop our overdependence on Chinese products.
  As we enter a new year and new Congress, we must get started to make 
America dependent upon ourselves.

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