[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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