A commitment to America that we would lower your energy costs that’s exactly what this bill does we made it hr1 because we care not just about the American Family to let them have more cash in their own pocket but make their energy costs lower the global emissions and make the world safer
By doing so China will no longer dictate when it comes to critical minerals the president signs this bill will produce them here in America no longer will no longer will the governor of California buy oil from Putin you could actually buy it in his own State because
We could produce what God has punished us and blessed us with here in America we could produce our own energy all of the above here in America no longer will we have to fear about what will happen in the environment American natural gas is 40 percent cleaner than Russian natural gas if you
Just replaced one year of the Russian natural gas to Europe we would have lowered emissions by 218 million tons and that can take place if the president would sign this bill we’re less than a hundred days from coming into the majority and being sworn in if you look at the commitment to
America in the back you could see the checkoff of keeping our commitment to this nation making us energy independent making our streets safer making our economy stronger we’re just getting started as I said on the opening day it’s not how you start it’s how you finish
And with each week we only get stronger the nation gets safer and the country becomes even greater with that I’d like to call up our Majority Leader the author of HR One Steve scalise foreign thank you Mr Speaker and what a great day this is for American families who
Have been struggling for too long under the weight of high prices record high inflation all of the problems that President Biden has created and especially for those people that have been frustrated for so long that President Biden has gone after American Energy but yet going all around the
World and begged foreign dictators to produce our energy and get our energy from them this has never been a question about whether or not we have oil and natural gas in the United States of America the question has been where do we get it when President Biden came into office on
Day one he declared war on American Energy he killed the Keystone Pipeline here in America between United States and Canada but it wasn’t because the president was against pipelines he was just against American pipelines because just days later he gave a gift to Vladimir Putin because he greenlighted
The Nordstrom 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany so there you had President Biden picking foreign countries like Russia Over America then you saw him after lease sale after lease sale permits that he wouldn’t even let go through slow walking permits blocking permits canceling lease sales to produce
Oil and natural gas in America but again it wasn’t because he was against oil and natural gas because at the same time he was making it harder to produce that oil and natural gas here in America he was calling Vladimir Putin begging him to produce more oil Putin said no so you
Know what the president then did we said you could just pick up the phone call some of these great workers here look at these great energy industry workers that are here Mr President these are American Energy industry workers they know how to make energy cleaner and more efficient than
Anywhere else in the world and if you put them to work they’re going to not only be making it cleaner than anywhere else in the world they’re also going to be lowering costs for families who are sick and tired of paying 50 percent more at the pump who
Are tired of paying 40 percent more in their household electricity costs because the countries that President Biden wants us to get our energy from whether it’s Russia Saudi Arabia Venezuela he wants us to get our solar panels and windmills and batteries from China because he won’t let us mine in
America well you know what we stood up for America there too today because we said let’s mine in America not in China you want to talk about standards we are all sick and tired of these liberals in Washington who wake up every day trying to bash America and cancel
Projects in America Nobody Does It cleaner and better anywhere in the world than the United States of America it’s about time we open up America for business and say to all those foreign dictators in the world we’re not going to buy your energy that’s dirty we’re going to get clean energy here in
America that’s lower costs for families let’s stand up for those working men and women and as we continue [Applause] thank you the commitment to America we made is to stand up for those families who have been left behind by Washington for far too long the good news for them is help
Is on the way and we’re going to keep doing this we’re not going to slow down we’re not going to stop working and the man who’s helped us get the votes is our whip Tom emmer thank you to our speaker for making sure that we’ve had this opportunity thank
You for our majority leaders Steve scalise who I believe today has lived up to the title of Raging Cajun I think today it works month after month families have been slammed with record-breaking gas prices and massive utility bills some have even had to choose between filling up their car or
Putting food on the table for their families Democrats war on domestic energy sent energy costs skyrocketing and Americans were forced to foot the bill but today House Republicans said no more I’m proud of our work to pass hr1a bipartisan Common Sense bill that unleashes that unleashes American Energy and
Drives down costs for family the core tenants of the bill were simple you want lower costs for Americans you want to allow energy companies to thrive without all of the bureaucratic red tape you want to make America the energy superpower of the world then guess what you vote in favor of hr-1 unfortunately
Over 200 house Democrats chose to vote against this bill and President Biden is already irresponsibly threatening to veto the legislation but we’ve seen how he’s changed his mind uh Mr Speaker in the past make no mistake Americans will remember who stood up to give them some
Relief at the pump and end a Reliance on foreign dictators for oil they will also remember the ones that didn’t today was a big win for the American people and I look forward to celebrating more wins ahead as the House Republicans continue to govern and with that I turn it over
To the best conference chair here Elise stefanik to the web this is a historic day for America this is about putting American workers first this is about putting American families first as we work hard to lower the cost of energy prices that have skyrocketed under Joe Biden’s failed and
Catastrophic leadership as the speaker said we are less than 100 days into the new Republican majority and we are driving the policy agenda just look at the checklist we’ve reopened the people’s house which is why we have a crowded room today let’s give a round of applause for that
We repeal the 87 000 IRS agents we passed the parents Bill of Rights and today we are so proud to pass hr1 and for all of the reporters it is important to note that multiple Democrats cross the aisle because they know that we are governing and delivering Solutions and I
Am so proud to introduce one of our leading committee chairs who helped make this happen chairman Bruce Westerman our chair of Natural Resources oh thank you Elise it feels great to win and this is a winning team behind me right here but this team is not winning for ourselves we’re winning for the
American people and HR one is a victory for the American people it truly will do what it says it will do it will lower energy costs but will also give us energy security it will give us National Security it will break Chinese Supply chains and it is part of the commitment
To America and I just want to thank the leadership of the team a team that Kevin McCarthy has put together he and Steve scalise Tom enemer Elise stefanik the whole crew is focused on unifying Republicans for the benefit of America and there’s been great teamwork this
Bill is not written by any one member it came from multiple members from multiple committees and uh I’ve got two of my fellow committee chairs here Kathy McMorris Rogers and Sam Graves I can tell you after Putin invaded Russia we have been working on this legislation
But we sat down and said we have to have comprehensive energy policy and it can’t just be in the jurisdiction the natural resources committee it can’t just be in the jurisdiction of Energy and Commerce as the jurisdiction of TNI it has to be comprehensive across the conference and
We have to bring everybody on board and with a very top margin majority margin we passed a bipartisan bill today because we work together on behalf of the American people thank you to everyone that did that and I want to introduce the chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee uh someone who’s had
Tremendous input on this bill Kathy McMorris [Applause] thank you thank you uh Bruce my partner Along With Sam Graves and the entire leadership team all the members that are here proud to stand with this entire team in support of our leadership on H on hr1 unleashing American Energy but I
Think I’m most proud to be here with uh those that are wearing the hard hats that say proud American Energy workers that is this legislation is about unleashing American Energy it is about making sure that America is producing more domestic energy and we appreciate what you’re
Doing every day to make sure that we have reliable affordable energy and unfortunately we’ve seen from the Biden Administration a shutting down of American Energy and and you know energy is foundational to everything it is it is what is lifted people out of poverty raised the standard of living more than
Any other country in the history of the world and that’s why American energy is so important because it is the driver of American leadership and we as others have said we do it better we do it cleaner we do it more efficient than anywhere else in the world so when we
Are increasing domestic production in the United States it means we’re also alluring carbon emissions America is leading on all fronts and it’s so important to addressing what’s driving the cost uh to fill your car up with gas or heat your home and not that’s why we’re so excited to be here today to
Pass this legislation bipartisan bipartisan over there in the Senate you know we have a strong bipartisan vote in the house and we’re and we’re excited to see the Senate take it up for uh consideration thank you everyone and I’m proud to introduce chairman of the transportation committee Sam Graves
You know the reason for this uh for this bill is is lower energy costs and my constituents are screaming because their heating bills have been outrageously expensive this year so the transportation committee our component to this was 401 permitting reform a bill that was originally co-sponsored by David Rouser and Garrett Graves what
This bill with the 401 permitting process does is prevent States from being able to weaponize the permitting process and that’s happened over the years what Republicans are about is water quality so we want to make sure that permits are denied or granted based on water quality wind no way takeaway
States opportunities to increase that decrease that that’s up to them but we want to make sure that those uh that those permits are granted or denied based on water quality and that’s what Republicans stand for I am now introducing Garrett Grace one of the co-sponsors of that particular piece of legislation Garrett
Thank you thanks Dad um you know if you look at what’s happened over the past year and a half we put a commitment to America together and I think that really embodies what the founders of this country intended we traveled across the United States engaging stakeholders engaging individuals and engaging families about
Their vision for America and what this bill does is it unleashes America’s energy resources because we don’t think it’s right that 40 percent of Americans individuals and families over the last two years have had to choose among paying for utility bills buying medicine or paying for groceries these are false choices and it’s
Absolutely unacceptable what we’ve seen over the last two years is the bite Administration carrying out incomprehensible energy policies under the concept of trying to address climate change the truth is is that emissions have actually gone up under the Biden Administration not down under the previous administration emissions went
Down an average of two and a half percent a year and we’ve watched over the last two years as emissions have gone up over six percent so you’re failing on the very objective that you’re trying to achieve while you’re pushing American families into energy poverty charging them higher gasoline
Prices higher utility prices and one of the biggest drivers of inflation we’re delivering on a commitment to America because this is the right thing to do just like you would do in your own family just like you you would do in your own business you’re unleashing America’s resources we have oil and gas
Here the Biden administration’s own Department of energy released a report just two weeks ago showing the global demand for oil and gas is going to increase 50 percent over the next 25 years and what are we doing they’re out there announcing shutting down stopping domestic energy production this is
Completely illogical and it’s all on the backs of American families and let’s be clear on what these higher prices are these higher prices are taxes their taxes they’re being charged on America’s families to try and achieve a political agenda that they’re completely failing at I want to thank all of these people
Behind me the folks that sat there and worked so hard to take the ideas we heard all across America and translate those into the the package of bills that we we passed today I want to thank the incredible leadership team back there led by Speaker McCarthy to to make sure
That we engaged everyone and gave them a voice in this process to ensure that we weren’t just advancing conventional fuels but that we unleash America’s renewable energy opportunities as well so where we truly can Lean Forward on a path of affordable energy clean energy and ensuring ensuring that we protect America’s
Energy security thank you I want to give a special thanks to Garrett graves because more than a year ago that he was the chair of the task force and to all those members behind me that participated in that task force the extra time you went to travel you went
Across the country to listen and especially thank the American Energy worker who continues wants to have a job instead of the President Biden shutting him down America’s stronger today because of what happened in Congress on a bipartisan basis America will be even stronger tomorrow as we get back to work with that let’s
Open it up for questions yes sir my question I think you’re overthinking it what we did was spent a year listening to the American public and you just write good policies you know what you don’t worry about where the vote’s going to be because at the end of the day you
Even get Democrats when they’re whipping really hard with their leadership trying to force their members not to vote for it it actually comes forward on a bipartisan basis we’ve watched when we put bills on the floor the president will put in a sap and tell the Democrats
To vote no but he’s opposed to it then he turns around once he reads the bill and says oh I’m going to vote for that we’ve watched it time and again so you might analyze a lot and worry about what you think we’re doing we don’t do that
We just focus on policy you make good policy what happens at the end of the day you make America stronger thank you mm-hmm 130 mass shootings what is your plan to deal with Mexicans are happening in schools and communities across okay there’s a one person in America that doesn’t see the devastation what
Happened in that school there’s no one person in America doesn’t want to try to solve all this we want to make sure we take in all the information we watched a school that was locked so I think everyone would believe somebody has to be mentally ill to enter
A school literally when you read the report she picked between schools based upon whether one school had an armed officer that could stop her she literally shot through the window to go in to these young children I do want to thank the officers the officers did not delay
There were young men themselves they didn’t know what they were running into and they did not slow down as they went hallway to doorway to save the others that were there we will look getting all the information is there anything that we can do more but I
Would say to a nation as a whole the problem that we are today it’s not just going to be a legislation we’ve got to have a severe conversation here with this country we’ve got to deal with mental illness we’ve got to see what’s driving individuals to think you would go to innocent children
A Christian School to shoot in to literally write about it I don’t think one piece of legislation solved this I think a nation together working together solves a problem that’s much bigger than us to that point are you going to meet with the minority leader Jefferson today of course plans
For you to meet about it and you know shouldn’t Congress be the one taking the lead on this initiative as my mentioned perhaps an assault weapon ban expansion of background checks and funding for mental health I think the thing that we will do like we deal with any issue just like the
Issue that we’re dealing with today with hr1 what did we do we didn’t just write a bill here we went across the country to get all the facts that’s exactly what we’ll do and look at the facts yes ma’am foreign debt ceiling any progress there on a meeting with the president
All right let me walk you through I know we’re here for HR one but I appreciate all your questions um we will get all the information how we deal with any subject and we’ll work through it unfortunately the president um you know back in 2011 he called him the um Biden
Talks I sat down with the president on February 1st we had a good discussion he said he wanted to meet further he actually tweeted out afterwards that he wanted to have further discussions he told us the very next morning not just myself but he told those members who
Went to the prayer breakfast that we’re going to meet he told the Democratic Congress on their Retreat that he’s going to have a meeting with me he apparently doesn’t want to meet and I don’t understand why we’re very reasonable responsible what we do know especially after the Congressional
Budget office came out that America taxpayers will have to pay 10.5 trillion dollars in interest in the next 10 years even though for the last 80 years we’ve only paid 9 trillion we do know for the first time in American history based upon the Democrats rise in spending more
Than 6 trillion more dollars Six Trillion more what happens well have you studied economics if you had the pleasure of years past Milton Freeman one of the best economists ever to come out of America told you that there’s only one place inflation begins or starts and that’s with government when
They spend too much we’ve watched interest rates have to rise based upon what the Democrats have done now we watch that there’s a bank crisis but we’ve got a president in office that seems to treat issues the same way Afghanistan he missed and set us back decades
We watched him tell us that inflation was transitory that it wouldn’t sustain itself we watched him slow to action we asked back in 2015 to give a Ukraine’s Javelin so they could defend themselves so Russia would not invade now we’re watching him do the exact same thing but it’s more dangerous because
He’s dealing with the American economy I don’t understand why he thinks the debt ceiling just gets raised we’re sitting here believing that if we curve our spending what will happen lower inflation if he signs hr1 it will lower inflation bring more American jobs then global environment will be stronger and
You know what he no longer will have to get in a plane and go to Saudi Arabia and be embarrassed for begging for more oil we can make American oil with American workers so I’m sorry he needs to change his behavior go back to the person he said
He was that you need to sit down our government is designed to have compromise we don’t have a predeceived idea of where it has to go but I think there’s three things that we should look at we should be able to lower save and grow lower our spending save the taxpayer money
And grow our economy just like hr1 you know we talk about what it will do to energy but if you want to build anything in America you need hr1 you want to build a road you want to build a bridge you want to have a permitting process to put solar or wind
On average five to seven years and you wonder why China continues to jump ahead well we say no more of that sine hr1 and we’ll make America stronger but more important Mr President I’m ready at any time at any moment I’ll come tonight it doesn’t make it
Difficult to sit down and negotiate and find common ground to make America a little stronger and make sure we stop overspending yes what happened he is what specific do you think will happen here who specifically should forget this issue issue from your conference and how specifically will you have that conversation with America
Let me specifically answer your question I disagree with your first premise that people just talk about it I watched this Republican conference when we had a majority take action when we watched a shooting in a church in Texas where an individual never should have had that weapon why because he was
Dishonorably discharged from the military and it was the military that wasn’t updating the records so you know what first we got all the information so I’m sure at that moment in time I’m not I probably don’t have the exact memory but I’m sure you asked me the same question
Then and I said we’d look at all the information and we’d make sure that that problem couldn’t happen again and we took action and corrected it so we’re going to do the exact same thing we’re going to find all the facts but one thing I will tell you
It’s not just legislation that solves these problems collectively as a nation we’re going to have to come together we watch times when an own family member would call the FBI warning of the signs of someone we saw and we watched that child go shoot a school too we don’t want to miss
Opportunities to stop what just happened and we’ll do our job yes ma’am I talked to I talked to Joe manchin often in Kristen Cinema those seem like two people that want to do a lot of things I’m not sure we don’t have many bills over here that’s come out of the
Senate on any subject so it’s hard for me to say anything he passes is dead he’d have to get to work first um that’s what we heard from the president when he said he wanted to stand with the 172 Democrats that are so extreme in this house that they thought they could
Decriminalize carjacking in some forms of murder but they changed their minds I think at the end of the day if Schumer would even ask his own conference I think there’s a lot of people there that want to make American Energy want to make America stronger and if they really care about
Lowering Global emissions because under their majority all they’ve ever do is raise emissions yes what proposal well first of all if we’re talking about debt limit we’re talking about budget there’s two different things just so everybody knows a budget resolution doesn’t even go to the president and a budget resolution
Doesn’t raise the debt limit so well if I would call them savings because if you just added six trillion dollars and if you increase discretionary spending by 30 percent and you created inflation in America the only way to stop that is to be able to curve it I’ve given the president many
Ideas how can you limit how can you save and how can you grow well how would you limit well we’ve got billions of dollars sitting out there that have been dormant for more than two years the people have not spent so why don’t you save the taxpayer money and pull
That back we’ve got abilities that how can we help the supply chain how can we make help people get back to work give them the training they need in others well you can put work requirements for able-bodied people with no dependents that means if they’re going to school if
They’re looking for a job they’re fine but we can help the supply chain work back we can grow the economy how would we grow the economy hr1 is one of those abilities to do that so there’s a lot of ideas out there we have more than four trillion dollars in savings we
Can limit the amount of growth as we go in the future the real difficulty here is if you simply check the facts if the president would read what the Congressional budget office the nonpartisan individual said if you take the 50-year average of spending in America that’s roughly 21 percent of GDP
But under President Biden he’s spending more than 23.7 percent of the GDP on the way to 25 percent if you look at revenues because the president’s only answer is to raise more taxes on average in 50 years we usually bring in about 17 percent of GDP today
We’re at 20. only 200 only two other times in modern history in America have we ever brought in this much money on a percentage but we’re bringing more money than ever before the problem was when the Democrats had all majority they spent like drunken Sailors they created
Inflation then he went after the energy industry and even made it worse so what we need to do is sit down like any household would happen and find places that we can eliminate waste the fraud but more importantly create a system that makes the energy in America stronger lower price but make our
Economy even better the conference is very close and if the president doesn’t act we will if you can explain to me what’s partisan in making energy could you name those for me because I’m not sure because you had a bipartisan vote out here so what’s controversial the only thing that would be
Controversial is that you have the majority of the Democrats who have such extreme views that even when we pass the parents Bill of Rights their extreme view believes that parents shouldn’t know what’s being taught to their children they think so extreme that you shouldn’t tell parents when some violence happens in your
School they are so extreme in their views that they don’t believe the schools should tell them where they’re spending their money and now we just found the majority of them are so extreme that they rather stand with China and Russia than with the American Energy worker so I’m not sure what’s controversial in
The bill I’m not sure what’s controversial that you can speed the process up so we can make things in America we built the Empire State we built the Empire State Building in 400 Days but it takes us seven years to build a simple road today that’s wrong and we’re
Not going to be able to compete with other countries if we continue to hold America back all right yes last question yes yes not this week and we’re going to be away you know you know what’s interesting if I take your question I could have had that same question when
You said Why Stop DC from decriminalizing and allowing more carjacking and more murders it’s not going to get through the Senate it’s definitely not going to be signed by the president because he simply said he was opposed to it and it got signed by the president no let me finish you asked you
A question let me answer that could take that same position that same question you asked right now of whether we could end the pandemic in America he said he was opposed to it and now he’s going to sign it so what will the markets react I think
The markets will be very excited that one entity here is taking action we have been reasonable responsible asked to sit down with the president for months he is making the decision that he wants to put the economy in jeopardy I don’t know what more I can do and how
Easy I would bring the lunch to the White House I would make it soft food if that’s what he wants it doesn’t matter whatever it takes to me I just don’t know what’s changed from his comments before when he says it’s not right if people don’t sit down and meet together yes sir
Yes so I’m wondering who’s right here is he writing news I haven’t seen what you’re talking about but Putin’s authoritarian president XI is authoritarian and I’m very concerned where I see the world right now it looks like 1936 we got China Russia North Korea and Iran I watched overnight last night that
Russia arrested a Wall Street Journal reporter exactly what they did but it also goes to the behavior of the administration they want to pay rents and they’re going to continue to go after people if you want to be strong I’ve watched in California Gavin Newsom shut down
20 percent of the energy produced in California but we didn’t use twenty percent less he then started paying Putin for 50 000 barrels a day that Putin used to build an army to invade Ukraine I’ve watched our own president go to Saudi Arabia and beg for them to produce more
While at the same time looking at these American Energy workers and telling them they’re out of a job I will tell you this every statistic you see every measurement you can have under this Administration emissions have gone up if he would allow natural gas to replace Russian natural gas for one year
In Europe Not only would Putin be weaker not only he couldn’t evade Ukraine but the global emissions would have been reduced by 218 million tons so I don’t know what’s extreme about that I don’t know what’s controversial about that I can’t force these people to change their extreme behaviors but what
We can do is pass bipartisan legislation with Republicans and a few Democrats on the other side we can walk out to the American people listen to them come back and find Solutions and sit here and gladly take your questions and wish you all a very very happy Easter thank you [Applause]
