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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextMr. BARRASSO. Mr. President, 1 year ago, Republicans passed the Working Families Tax Cut law. It is landmark legislation. It helped put more money in people's pockets, and just about every American working family has benefited.
Cut law on American energy. This new law marks a dramatic shift in America's energy policy. America has now stopped apologizing for producing the energy that our Nation needs.
again. Today, America has become the largest energy producer in the world. We produce more oil than the next two biggest producers combined. We produce as much natural gas as the next three largest countries combined. And we have more clean coal than any other nation in the world. We are also living in a time of cutting-edge nuclear technology. America is blessed with boundless gifts when it comes to energy, and when we use all of our energy resources wisely, as we do, America wins.
The Biden administration got energy completely wrong. Joe Biden told his Cabinet to prioritize climate over energy that was available, affordable, and reliable.
Democrats closed Federal lands to new energy production. Democrats raised taxes on energy producers. Democrats force-fed Americans electric vehicles that people didn't want and couldn't afford. Democrats handed out billions of dollars in subsidies to green energy companies, and these are companies that would never survive without government handouts.
So what were the results? Under Joe Biden, families and businesses paid more for energy. Energy workers in Wyoming and across the country lost good-paying jobs. America grew more dependent on foreign nations for energy—energy that we could and should be producing ourselves.
dominance. The Working Families Tax Cut law opens more energy production onshore, offshore, and in Alaska. That includes oil and gas, as well as clean coal.
This is a major change from the Biden administration. Joe Biden presided over the fewest energy lease sales since President Harry Truman.
Republicans are strengthening U.S. energy production. We are streamlining burdensome regulations. At the same time, we are protecting Federal lands.
natural gas. This saves American families money when they try to cool their home this summer.
land. This matters enormously in my home State of Wyoming. Our Powder River Basin produces nearly half of the coal in America.
Coal means good-paying jobs in our State. It means revenue for our schools. It means affordable, available, reliable power for millions upon millions of Americans.
Now, producing clean coal is more competitive.
we have done it. That is what the Working Families Tax Cut law did when we passed it, a year ago, and it continues to do it today.
Every Democrat voted to keep high taxes on natural gas. They voted to keep American energy trapped in the ground.
Working Families Tax Cut law. Democrats want to go backward. They have said it.
American energy. Washington, DC, often overlooks them. Working families depend upon them. And I represent several of those small refineries that are in Wyoming.
The refineries employ thousands of people. They make gasoline prices more affordable. They strengthen our Nation's energy security. And proposed new mandates on small refineries would harm them and harm the people who work there.
to energy production. We should not spend the next few months imposing costly new mandates on American refineries.
available, and reliable. It is good for our workers, it is good for our economy, and it is good for the safety and security of our Nation.
I yield the floor.
The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Washington.