[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 120 (Thursday, July 13, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H3486]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    THE ANTI-AMERICAN ENERGY AGENDA

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Collins) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. COLLINS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to call on my colleagues in 
the Senate to pass the Lower Energy Costs Act, otherwise known as H.R. 
1.
  The House passed H.R. 1 on March 30, but like so many other of our 
bills that we have sent over to the Senate, it seems like they fall 
into a black hole, never to be heard of or talked about again.
  What does H.R. 1 do? Well, I am glad you asked. H.R. 1 reforms the 
permitting process, the permitting process not only to build out 
domestic production here in the U.S. but reforms the process allowing 
us to drill for oil and gas here in America.
  In short, it stops the radical, anti-American energy agenda that the 
Biden administration has been pushing that is making us dependent on 
foreign countries. It reverses that, and it makes us energy independent 
again.
  Here is a fact for you. The national price for gasoline has not been 
under $3 a gallon since March of 2021. Now, you contrast that with the 
Trump administration when the price of gas never even reached $3 a 
gallon.
  It is this war on American energy that all started when the Biden 
administration revoked the permits for the Keystone pipeline and then 
halted all permits on new oil and gas drilling in the U.S.
  It is this government overreach, these excess regulations, that are 
hurting the American families out there, let alone harming our national 
security. That is why the Lower Energy Costs Act reverses all of that.
  Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues over in the Senate to get off the 
pickleball court, get back in the Chamber, do your job, and pass H.R. 
1, the Lower Energy Costs Act.

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