Gas prices – which have risen 60 percent on the Democrats’ watch – remain high, home heating costs poised to follow suit this fall and winter. Families, seniors, small businesses, and schools are suffering suffer – all thanks one anti-American energy tactic after another on Capitol Hill.
All year long, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) has blocked a meaningful vote on the energy reforms the American people want – and she’s still blocking one. With each day that passes, she is defying the will of the American people by blocking an up-or-down vote on the American Energy Act (H.R. 6566), House Republicans’ “all of the above” bill to lower gas prices by increasing production of American energy, promoting more conservation and efficiency, and encouraging the use of more alternative and renewable fuels.
Congress’ five-week summer break continues to drag on – and there’s been no indication from the Speaker that she will allow an honest debate and vote on the House GOP’s “all of the above” reforms even after Congress returns in September.
Instead of allowing a vote, the Speaker is employing a new tactic to block the will of the House and that of American families, seniors, and small businesses: drafting a new “plan” in secret, and loading it with enough poison pills to ensure its defeat – including expressly forbidding expanded energy production far off the shores of her own home state.
How much longer will the Speaker continue to defy the will of the American people?
