{"id":1906090,"date":"2023-03-28T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-challenge-democrats-to-support-domestic-energy-package\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T19:23:25","slug":"house-republicans-challenge-democrats-to-support-domestic-energy-package","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-republicans-challenge-democrats-to-support-domestic-energy-package\/","title":{"rendered":"House Republicans Challenge Democrats to Support Domestic Energy Package"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhouse-republicans-challenge-democrats-to-support-domestic-energy-package%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1906090&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0328\/dc0670f4-1618-4d2e-80ff-706464da95c5\/audio.mp3?length=3779181&#038;duration=315\"><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>House Republican leadership touted their Lower Energy Costs Act as a \u201chistoric\u201d move toward energy affordability and independence that eco-friendly Democrats would do well to support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor those that are supporting\u2014whether its Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela, or Iran\u2014producing more oil, they\u2019re actually hurting the environment because nobody has better standards than the United States of America,\u201d House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) noted at a March 28 press conference. \u201cI don\u2019t know why Chuck Schumer or anybody else that\u2019s against this bill would want more energy made in countries that don\u2019t have the good standards that we have in America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about time we start standing up for America,\u201d Scalise added. \u201cI\u2019m sick and tired of these people who wake up every day beating up America when nobody does it better than us. And by the way, when you\u2019re making things in America, it lowers costs for American families who are struggling under the weight of President Biden\u2019s failed agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Prioritizing Domestic Energy<\/h2>\n<p>The Lower Energy Costs Act, also known as H.R. 1, aims to reduce energy costs by boosting domestic energy production and exports while streamlining the permitting process for energy projects.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also seeks to increase domestic production and processing of the critical minerals used for making components of advanced technologies, like the lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and portable electronics.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, China is the world\u2019s largest producer of those minerals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChina\u2019s eating our lunch on mining,\u201d noted Rep. Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee. \u201cEspecially on things like copper. Where we were producing three times as much copper as China in 1995, today, they\u2019re producing 10 times more than we produce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, available resources like coal, oil and gas, and uranium will be needed for \u201cgenerations to come,\u201d Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-Wyo.) said, adding that those who claimed otherwise were \u201cbeing dishonest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe key question that we must address, then, is who\u2019s going to be producing our energy\u2014our fellow Americans using our very own resources here, or foreign and often hostile countries who do not now and never will have our best interests at heart?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting that Republicans found the correct answer to that question to be obvious, Hageman charged that the Biden administration and Democrats preferred offshoring production of those resources to \u201cthird-world and dictatorial countries who care nothing about protecting the environment\u201d like China, Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s high time that we ignore the lies underpinning the promises of the Green New Deal and face reality,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd reality is what the Republicans are offering with H.R. 1.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Democrat Opposition<\/h2>\n<p>While more than 100 organizations\u2014including Chevron and BP\u2014have expressed support for the Republican energy package, the White House announced\u00a0on March 27 that it \u201cstrongly opposes\u201d the bill and that President Joe Biden would veto it in its current form.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Administration is making unprecedented progress in protecting America\u2019s energy security and reducing energy costs for Americans\u2014in their homes and at the pump. H.R. 1 would do just the opposite, replacing pro-consumer policies with a thinly veiled license to pollute,\u201d the Office of Management and Budget contended in a March 27 statement.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, the administration asserted, would \u201cpad oil and gas company profits,\u201d \u201cundercut\u201d public health and environment, and raise energy costs for taxpayers by repealing household energy rebates and cutting investments in \u201ccost-lowering\u201d clean energy technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden-Harris Administration is advancing an unparalleled expansion of American-made energy that will reduce costs, secure supply chains, and create good-paying jobs,\u201d the statement adds, contending that the administration has already made \u201cdramatic progress in every area.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Administration wants to work in bipartisan manner with Congress to address lowering energy costs, permitting reform, and addressing energy challenges. However, H.R. 1 would take us backward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has declared the bill \u201cdead on arrival\u201d in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe House GOP HR1 package fails to meet America\u2019s energy needs,\u201d he wrote in a March 21 tweet. \u201cNo serious energy package would omit reforms for accelerating the construction of real transmission. No serious energy package would stuff itself with poison pills the way HR1 does.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, with the bill scheduled to come to the House floor this week, Scalise challenged House Democrats to demonstrate their commitment to the environment by supporting the measure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of Democrats talk the talk,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to see on Thursday if they actually walk the walk by voting for this bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republican leadership touted their Lower Energy Costs Act as a \u201chistoric\u201d move toward energy affordability and independence that eco-friendly Democrats would do well to support. \u201cFor those that are supporting\u2014whether its Saudi Arabia, or Venezuela, or Iran\u2014producing more oil, they\u2019re actually hurting the environment because nobody has better standards than the United States of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1226,"featured_media":1906091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[7727,3685,6436,4486,3653,3632,3756,3723],"class_list":["post-1906090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-challenge","tag-democrats","tag-domestic","tag-energy","tag-house","tag-package","tag-republicans","tag-support"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1906091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}