    [Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 38 (Wednesday, February 26, 2025)]
    [Senate]
    [Page S1363]
    From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

                                     ENERGY

      Mr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, when it comes to American energy, the
    emergency siren is blaring. After 4 years of reckless regulations and
    restrictions by the Democrat administration, energy prices have jumped
    31 percent. Families are feeling it all across the country. To most
    Americans, this is the definition of an energy emergency. To Senate
    Democrats, it is an inconvenient truth.
      Today, Democrats are trying to reverse President Trump's national
    energy emergency. They are bringing it right here to the floor of the
    U.S. Senate. They are trying to block commonsense measures that are
    going to address painfully high energy prices under which American
    families have been suffering. This national energy emergency is part of
    President Trump's swift actions--actions to unleash American energy. It
    is part of this broader vision of affordable, reliable, available
    American energy.
      Democrats oppose all of that. They have opposed it for the last 4
    years. They still oppose it. They have learned nothing from 4 years of
    failure. Democrats remain the party of high energy prices. That is what
    they want. They think it is going to help the climate. Democrats remain
    the party of painful and punishing regulations. They remain the party
    of never-ending dependence on foreign dictators for energy that we have
    right here. Democrats want to continue the war on American energy, and
    that is why they are going to line up today and oppose what President
    Trump is trying to do to bring energy prices down.
      Republicans know that the best way to lower prices for the American
    people is to support more American energy production. We have it here;
    we ought to use it. We have the energy. But not just do we have the
    energy, we have the workers--excellent, qualified, hard-working
    Americans--and they know how to produce American energy responsibly.
      Last week, Senate Republicans, here in this body, passed a budget to
    secure the border, to unleash American energy, to rebuild our military,
    and we are taking further action to address high energy prices and cut
    redtape.
      We are working today on two important resolutions, doing it this
    entire week, using something called the Congressional Review Act. The
    first is from Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana. His resolution rolls
    back a burdensome Biden midnight regulation on energy production in the
    Gulf of America. The Senate passed it yesterday.
      The second is from Senator John Hoeven of North Dakota. His
    resolution cuts about $7 billion in new natural gas taxes on energy
    producers--$7 billion of new taxes. Where did it come from? It came
    from the Democrats.
      This tax on American energy hits American families who use the energy
    to heat their homes. It was mandated by the Democrats' reckless tax-
    and-spending bill. The Democrat tax penalizes oil and gas production in
    America, and in doing so, it punishes American families.
      The golden age of American energy is the foundation of our golden age
    for America. It is linked directly to the prices that we pay, to the
    technology we use, and to the world we live in. Republicans are not
    going to allow the sticky thorns of redtape to entangle American
    energy. Republicans are reversing these punishing political
    regulations. That is what we are doing today. We are taking the
    handcuffs off of American energy production. We are paving the way for
    affordable, reliable American energy production.
      Unleashing American energy means lower prices. It means more
    innovation. It means more safety and stability in our communities and
    in our economy.
      America is an energy superpower. We need to act like it.
      I yield the floor.
      The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Rhode Island.

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