[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 20 (Monday, February 5, 2024)]
[House]
[Pages H412-H413]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FURTHERED THEIR ASSAULT ON AMERICAN ENERGY 
                               PRODUCTION

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, last week, the Biden administration 
furthered their assault on American energy production, deciding to 
essentially slash all pending and future liquefied natural gas export 
permits.
  Limiting these permits and these exports doesn't do anything to curb 
natural gas usage here or around the world. Instead, it will be 
replaced by adversaries around the world. It kills U.S. jobs and 
processing and has the opposite, so-called climate-smart agenda, 
results than were intended.
  The U.S. and the rest of the world will be forced to depend even more 
on global adversaries, such as Iran and Russia who have significantly 
looser emission standards than us, while lining their pockets, giving 
the ability in the case of Iran to fund terrorism, such as in Yemen, 
with weapons that have Iran's name on them.
  The Biden administration has been doing this since the President's 
first day in office and look what we have got: Russia invaded Ukraine. 
Iran-backed terrorists launched an attack on one of our closest allies, 
Israel. They are wreaking havoc blasting missiles at U.S. vessels in 
Middle Eastern waters, such as the Red Sea; cutting commerce; and have 
killed three of our U.S. servicemembers this weekend in Jordan; and 
Yemen is wreaking havoc.
  Energy security is national security. This decision jeopardizes our 
national security and global energy markets.

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