Energy Independence

Floor Speech

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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to be joined tonight by several of my colleagues who are doing excellent work to counter many of the misguided policy decisions made by the Biden administration that are costing American families.

From pushing legislation that fights back against the Biden administration's war on energy to creating a more sustainable Federal budgeting process, House Republicans are looking out for the American family and the American worker.

This is energy week. It is an opportunity for us to be able to highlight two different philosophies, and that is what you are going to hear a lot from my colleagues on, Mr. Speaker. We have also heard from other folks on the other side of the aisle who have literally put up a sign that says: polluters over people.

It is clear that there are two different philosophies about addressing this, Mr. Speaker. You can showcase that as American energy organizations we are going to do it better and we are going to do it cleaner than the rest of the world. By signaling that, we are able to effectively lower costs for American families.

What they have gone through over the last 3 years with historic prices and costs in the energy world is not putting people first. That is just categorically and completely disingenuous. There is a much more productive way to address this.

We harp on this a lot, but when we indicate and we showcase we are going to invest and that we are going to continue to embrace our ability to lead on this and bring our allies along with us, then we are able to weaken other adversaries across the world.

There are so many angles to this, from national security to domestic policy. It makes so much sense. I am thrilled to be able to hear from many of my colleagues on this issue.

I strongly believe that winning the future will take an optimistic and conservative approach, and we are committed to righting wrongs of the Biden administration and will continue to champion policies that allow American families to thrive.

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Mr. MOORE of Utah. I appreciate the gentleman from South Carolina. Good energy policy is groovy, so I thank the gentleman for bringing that up.

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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the gentleman from California (Mr. LaMalfa), especially as he brings up some of the forestry issues, massive amounts of invasive, very noxious trees, juniper trees, things like that that can be put to much better use, saving water, at the same time replacing that with a more productive forest option.

Those type of solutions exist out there, and we are working hard to identify that and actually do a productive job, instead of just allowing for the rhetoric to exist with regard to this energy narrative.

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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I sit on the same committee as the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Cline). We call one of those opportunities reverse the curse, the budget resolution. I do my best to show my constituents this is the hope that we have, that we didn't get here overnight, but we can build back toward fiscal responsibility, building a 10-year balanced budget and finding all those opportunities to extract waste out of our system so we can thrive and operate.

I thank the gentleman for culling out all of those differences. I appreciate it.

Now to my good friend from the greatest State--we call it the great State of Utah, but we both know that it is the greatest State--to share some of his thoughts for this important week.

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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Utah (Mr. Owens) for his sentiments on this important Energy Week. Solutions can be very common sense, and we hope to be able to beat that drum continually.

For our last speaker tonight, we get the pleasure of hearing from a Representative from the great State of Tennessee.

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Mr. MOORE of Utah. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Tennessee for his remarks.

I will wrap up here briefly, but as I started my remarks tonight about how this affects the family, I have the pleasure of having one of those families here today in the gallery watching this debate go on.

This is our focus. This is what we are completely focused on. This is not some nonsensical argument about polluters over people. That is just disingenuous.

The U.S. has made incredible gains. In my home State of Utah, air quality is one of our most important aspects, and we have been able to experience strong growth, but maintain and even lessen the impact that we have on particles per million, tier 3 gasoline.

If you embrace and you create opportunities for innovation, you can actually do better. You can actually engage allies better. We can be a net exporter. We can create a stronger America and lower prices.

Our entire focus here is to make sure that families have an opportunity to thrive. We put so much burden with the unnecessary costs from Biden's energy policies on the backs of the American workers and the American family.

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