Lower Energy Costs Act

Floor Speech

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Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Chair, I rise today because the Republicans' so- called energy legislation is a farce. This bill does nothing to lower energy costs. It instead increases our deficit by $2.4 billion in handouts to Big Oil.

In Ways and Means, the Oversight Committee clearly presented a report last year that clearly showed the oil companies themselves lied. Not Biden but the oil companies raised the price beyond belief.

I tried to offer a simple amendment to this bill that expressed support for offshore wind development, a clean energy source. That is it. It was blocked. At the same time, an amendment on their side was added, which gives hot air to fictions about offshore wind. So much for regular order.

Let me be clear, the experts agree. NOAA agrees, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the experts agree that offshore wind is not harmful to marine life. They would support it.

The author of one of these amendments was once a big supporter of wind energy. Now, he is leading the misinformation campaign against offshore wind.

How do you like that?

Republicans don't listen to experts or science. We know that. Their attacks on clean energy are rooted in pure bad faith.

Wind power is clean energy. It supports good-paying, union manufacturing and construction jobs.

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