Marshall, Rubio Legislation Bans Oil and Natural Gas Imports from Iran and Venezuela

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U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, M.D. joined Senator Marco Rubio (FL) in introducing thePreempting Misguided Appeasement and Financing of Destabilizing Regimes Act. This legislation would prohibit the importation of Iranian and Venezuelan crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas into the United States.

"Under the previous Administration our nation was energy independent, but President Biden reversed course and turned hostile nations like Russia into America's gas station," said Senator Marshall. "Now that President Biden has finally come around to halting Russian oil imports, you would think his natural next step would be to unleash our domestic energy supply and follow through on his pledge to buy American. Instead, the President is now reportedly looking to do business with terrorists and dictators in Iran and Venezuela to fill the void. This is simply unacceptable and will fail to provide short-term or long-term American energy security."

"The United States is blessed to have a plentiful supply of oil and natural gas -- we should be using it," said Senator Rubio. "American-produced energy is cleaner and provides good jobs for American workers, yet the Biden Administration would rather appease dictatorships in Iran and Venezuela in return for bad deals and false promises. Under no circumstance should we be funneling money into the hands of dictators and narco-terrorists who are also allies of Vladimir Putin. Enough is enough -- it's time to bring energy production back home. "

Joining Senators Marshall and Rubio in introducing this legislation were Senators Dan Sullivan (AK), Steve Daines (MT), Kevin Cramer (ND), Thom Tillis (NC), John Hoeven (ND), Rick Scott (FL), and James Lankford (OK).

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