House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview on Thursday that President Joe Biden and Democrats are “feeling the heat” from families suffering from high energy prices.
As Americans continue to feel the crushing weight of high energy prices and Biden has refused to unleash American energy, Scalise, Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rogers (R-WA), National Resources Committee Chair Bruce Westerman (R-AR), and Infrastructure Chair Sam Graves (R-MO) introduced H.R. 1, the Lower Energy Costs Act.
Congressional leaders typically reserve the first ten bills introduced for their most marquee legislation, and Scalise told Breitbart News that he and Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) wanted to make it known that this was one of their “highest priority” issues for the new House Republican majority.
- Bar Biden from banning fracking
- Repeal restrictions on importing and exporting natural gas
- Disapprove Biden’s cancelation of the Keystone XL pipeline
- Require the Interior Department to resume leases on federal lands and waters
- Reforms the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) permitting process to streamline federal reviews for all sectors of the economy
- Streamline the environmental permitting process for critical mineral refining
“Whether it’s making computer chips or even electric car batteries, it’s harder to get those critical minerals here in America because of the Biden administration’s heavy-handed regulations, and so you end up getting those from China, but we don’t want to be dependent on China for critical minerals,” Scalise said of the measure to improve access to critical minerals.
Although Biden vowed not to approve any new oil and gas leases on public lands during the 2020 presidential election, the Interior Department gave the green light to CoconoPhillips to drill for oil in the federally-owned National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska.
Scalise took this as a sign that Biden is beginning to crack from the pressure of high energy prices as inflation continues to run rampant.
