Thune: Republicans to Overturn Biden Administration Anti-Energy Regulations

“Republicans here in the Senate are very interested in making sure that we have an all-of-the-above energy strategy that puts the focus on making America energy dominant.”

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today spoke at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership:

Thune’s remarks below (as delivered):

“The price of pretty much everything that you buy is affected by the cost of energy.

“If you look at what energy impacts, it certainly impacts the cost of transportation; fuel, impacts and increases the cost of heating and fueling our homes; increases the cost of groceries.

“Energy is a factor in literally everything that we do and contributes in a big way to the inflationary impact the American people have experienced over the past four years.

“Republicans here in the Senate are very interested in making sure that we have an all-of-the-above energy strategy that puts the focus on making America energy dominant.

“And what the Democrats, on the other hand, do, if they don’t like something, they tax and regulate it to death.

“And if they do like something, they force a mandate on the American people, like they did with electric vehicles.

“Well, this week, we’re going to be focusing on trying to drive down the cost of energy in this country – which, by the way, in the last four years, under the Biden administration, energy increased 30 percent.

“Thirty percent.

“Think about that and the impact that has on the American people’s pocketbooks.

“They understand and get this issue. They agree with us.

“And so this week, we're going to be moving a couple of... Congressional Review Act resolutions of disapproval across the floor – one with Senator Kennedy, one with Senator Hoeven – both of which get at this issue of making energy in this country more available and more affordable to the American people.

“That is a very different model than what you got for the last four years from the Democrats.

“But Republicans in the Senate and in the House of Representatives, working with President Trump, who has made American energy dominance a key issue of his administration, we’re going to be doing everything we can to open up energy production in this country and make it easier, not harder, and less expensive, not more expensive, to create energy dominance for the American people and thereby lower the cost that they pay, literally on almost everything that they buy.”