The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) published a new paper this week arguing a carbon tax is unnecessary, harmful to economic growth and consumers, and would be a political disaster for supporters of the policy. In “Why Carbon Taxes Are Anti-Growth, Anti-Consumer, and Politically Dangerous for Conservatives,” CEI senior fellow Marlo Lewis examines several carbon tax proposals currently pending in Congress … Continue reading Economists reveal how carbon taxes would devastate economy
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House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) opened this week's markup by slamming Committee Democrats for prioritizing a bill to create more bureaucracy and emphasized the American people are more concerned with skyrocketing inflation, broken supply chains, soaring energy prices, and an out-of-control border crisis. In his opening statement, Ranking Member Comer … Continue reading Democrats force ‘woke’ ‘environmental justice’ on hard-working Americans
U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks this week on the Senate floor regarding Democrats’ reckless tax and spending spree: “Two thirds of Americans are worried about inflation. “About half of the middle class and 70 percent of low-income families just told Gallup that rising prices have been a personal hardship … Continue reading Build Back Beijing: Dem ‘green’ spending funnels billions to political cronies and Communist China
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) questioned Mr. Scott Nathan, President Biden’s nominee to be the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), on efforts to end global energy poverty. Barrasso specifically pressed for a commitment that the DFC would promote an all-of-the-above energy policy when it comes to supporting energy projects … Continue reading Barrasso presses Biden nominees on global energy poverty and disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal
Last week, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), in conjunction with the White House, released the Biden administration's report on oil and gas leasing in the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) issued the following statement in response: "In what has become a clear pattern with the Biden administration, … Continue reading Bowing to China and Russia, Biden announces new scheme to shut down US energy production
House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Subcommittee on the Environment Ranking Member Ralph Norman (R-S.C.), and Oversight Republicans sent a letter to Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) urging Committee Democrats to cease their reckless, partisan investigation into America’s oil and gas industry and instead hold a hearing to examine the rising … Continue reading Dems ignore rising calls for hearings on soaring energy prices
U.S. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) delivered the following remarks on the Senator floor about stopping President Biden’s war on American energy. Barrasso is ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (ENR). Senator Barrasso’s excerpts: “I come to the floor today to talk about the need for more American energy – not … Continue reading Barrasso: It’s time to stop Biden’s declared war on American energy
U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry and U.S. Representative Glenn 'GT’ Thompson (R-PA), ranking member of the House Committee on Agriculture are leading a bicameral effort calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind its decision to revoke all food tolerances for chlorpyrifos and … Continue reading GOP Ag Committee members call on EPA to rescind science denying activist ban on chlorpyrifos
U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) released the following statement on the Biden administration’s new and expansive waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule that was quietly issued just over a week ago. “Kentucky’s farmers and agricultural industry suffered when the Obama administration implemented its burdensome WOTUS rule, and now the Biden administration has chosen … Continue reading Rand Paul slams Biden radical rule on WOTUS
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the Biden administration made its announcement on Nord Stream 2: “This announcement typifies the mix of incoherence and weakness that has come to embody the foreign policy of President Biden and the Biden-Harris administration, at incalculable cost to … Continue reading Cruz: Nord Stream 2 announcement ‘typifies the mix of incoherence and weakness that has come to embody the foreign policy of President Biden’
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