{"id":1919712,"date":"2023-04-26T23:11:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-testified-before-congress-and-democrats-only-wanted-to-yell-at-me-about-old-tweets\/"},"modified":"2023-04-26T23:12:55","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T03:12:55","slug":"i-testified-before-congress-and-democrats-only-wanted-to-yell-at-me-about-old-tweets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/i-testified-before-congress-and-democrats-only-wanted-to-yell-at-me-about-old-tweets\/","title":{"rendered":"I Testified Before Congress And Democrats Only Wanted To Yell At Me About Old Tweets"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fi-testified-before-congress-and-democrats-only-wanted-to-yell-at-me-about-old-tweets%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=1919712&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--><h2>The Sad State of Congress: A Hearing on Green Tax Benefits Turns into a Twitter Witch Hunt<\/h2>\n<div class=\"article-content\">\n<p>It was supposed to be a serious discussion about the effects of the Biden energy agenda on rural America, but instead, the House Ways and Means Committee spent hours reading through old tweets. As the founder of Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs, I was disappointed in the complete lack of seriousness from the senior Democrat members. <\/p>\n<p>While Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., convened the hearing to discuss the \u201cgreen\u201d tax benefits of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), the Democrats wasted time on scripted \u201cgotcha\u201d lines and bluster. It was all just a show. <\/p>\n<p>But why were we even talking about tweets? The issue at hand, along with the $1.2 trillion in giveaways attached to it, is extremely urgent. We should have been discussing the green incentives in the IRA and whether they benefit Americans or the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). <\/p>\n<h3>The Minority Side of the Entire Hearing: Talk About Something Else<\/h3>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that only one in five Americans approves of the job Congress is doing. Members rush into a meeting, deliver words they had not even seen until they open the binder, then rush off to a fundraiser or to MSNBC\u2019s cameras in the Cannon Rotunda. Meanwhile, we are $31 trillion in debt, a rising China is launching spy balloons over our nation, the petrodollar has fallen, and members with decades of legislative experience tell their staff to focus on my social media. Weak and cheap.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s time to replace the rot with fresh blood. Remember that when it\u2019s time to vote.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Turner is the founder and executive director of Power The Future, a national nonprofit organization that advocates for American energy jobs. Contact him at daniel@powerthefuture.com and follow him on Twitter @DanielTurnerPTF.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/coal\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">coal<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/congress\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Congress<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/democrats\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Democrats<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/green-energy\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">green energy<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/house-of-representatives\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">House of Representatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/navajo-reservation\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Navajo Reservation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/ways-and-means-committee\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Ways and Means Committee<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 19, I testified before the House Ways and Means Committee ostensibly to discuss the effects of the Biden energy agenda on rural America. Instead, I listened to Democrats read through some of my old tweets. Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., convened a hearing to discuss the so-called \u201cgreen\u201d tax benefits of the Inflation Reduction<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":820,"featured_media":1919713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[546],"tags":[4402,3685,19639,6568,25237],"class_list":["post-1919712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-congress","tag-democrats","tag-testified","tag-tweets","tag-yell"],"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\/1919712","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\/820"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1919713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}