Unlocking Our Domestic Lng Potential Act of 2024

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Mr. WALBERG. Mr. Speaker, I thank my subcommittee chairman for his truth-talking.

I rise today in support of Representative Pfluger's bipartisan H.R. 7176, the Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act.

Last month, President Biden announced an indefinite ban on new exports of good, clean, American LNG. Our national security and that of our allies demand that the United States continue to export LNG to Europe and other nations that have been dependent on dirty gas from Russia and Iran.

Our communities and families along the Gulf Coast that depend on these jobs demand that we continue to export LNG.

We have long accepted that President Biden would relinquish our energy leadership in favor of environmental activists and special interests. Today, it was reported that one of the plan's main architects, soon-to-be-climate envoy John Podesta, might have other reasons to damper America's LNG future. His brother is a longtime lobbyist for foreign LNG companies, including one founded by a Russian energy oligarch.

This important legislation would immediately reverse the President's de facto ban and take the power to approve LNG exports away from the political whims of the White House and the DOE, placing it with the bipartisan Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

LNG exports help us to reduce global emissions, lower prices through more supply, and grow our economy and industrial base.

President Biden and his cabal are putting foreign adversaries and clean climate protesters ahead of the American people. That has to stop. Support this legislation.

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