While gas prices continue to rise, Maggie Hassan, Catherine Cortez Masto and Patty Murray have been waging war on American energy. They voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, killing thousands of American energy jobs. They voted against prohibiting the Biden Administration from banning fracking. And they voted against protecting American consumers and promoting American energy. While Hassan, Cortez Masto, Murray … Continue reading These Senate Dems oppose US energy, but pocketed maximum cash donations from Russian government’s Nord Stream 2 lobbyist
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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’
U.S. Senator Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, last week led Senators Rob Portman (R-Ohio), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) in introducing an amendment to the FY2022 National Defense Authorization Act to stop the Nord Stream 2 (NS2) pipeline project. The amendment … Continue reading Cruz, Risch, colleagues introduce NDAA amendment to block Nord Stream 2
“Congress, on a strong bipartisan basis, passed multiple laws that are crystal clear – NS2 must not be allowed to become operational. The administration continues its refusal to follow the law.”
“Up until the Biden Administration took over, we were energy secure, no longer dependent upon Middle East oil. The shale gas revolution enabled U.S. energy to be even less expensive and more reliable. Now, we find ourselves in a very different place, just 8 months later."
President Biden waived congressionally mandated sanctions on Nord Stream 2 A.G., which is the company overseeing the pipeline construction.
“CAATSA Section 228 requires sanctions on any person engaged in evading sanctions on behalf of a separately-sanctioned Russian entity. There is overwhelming evidence that NS2 AG meets the statutory requirement for being sanctioned.”
Biden mostly paid lip service to Ukraine's security and then pivoted to tired, partisan rhetoric about climate change and green energy. This is the stuff of university faculty lounges, not the real world.
Shortly after cancelling the Keystone XL Pipeline, Biden backed a waiver to allow Russia to build a pipeline creating 51,000 energy jobs in Russia.
"Biden has insisted on giving a multi-billion dollar gift benefiting Russia, hurting America, and hurting our national security interests"
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