[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 86 (Wednesday, May 21, 2025)]
[House]
[Page H2212]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTIONS

  (Mr. LATIMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, this afternoon, the House may be voting on 
America's worst budget ever. It includes cuts to SNAP and Medicaid 
funding that will hurt those who can least afford it and provide tax 
breaks for those who don't need them.
  Also among these tax changes are rollbacks to critical clean energy 
taxes and credits that were part of the Inflation Reduction Act. These 
include phasing out clean energy production and investment tax credits 
and ending longstanding home energy efficiency tax credits.
  If these aren't bad enough, they also add provisions to require the 
accelerated sale of public lands for oil and gas drilling and to 
rescind funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund that protects 
America from pollution and lowers the cost of energy bills.
  Climate change is real, and it is happening now. We must act. These 
were commonsense initiatives to move us away from complete reliance on 
fossil fuels and move toward a clean energy future.
  Mr. Speaker, try to spin it any way you want. Americans will suffer. 
Our world will continue to burn.

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