GOP lawmakers lambasted the Biden administration for its decision over the weekend to open the door to oil imports from Venezuela, saying the move was hypocritical.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., weighs in on the White House easing sanctions on Venezuela amid an oil supply crunch.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro stands before a meeting at the presidential palace in Caracas, Venezuela, on July 11. "Our nation needs to center on North American energy resources, not depend on dictators elsewhere in the world," said Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., the top Republican on the House Energy and Commerce Committee's energy subcommittee.
"They never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity," Rep. Kelly Armstrong, R-N.D., also a member of the energy subcommittee, told FOX Business in an interview. "When you do everything you can to stop domestic production, it's a real problem." "The world needs energy — American energy," he continued. "This is a historic opportunity for our leaders to come back to reality, and realize that if we ruin our economy by pursuing these arbitrary ‘rush to green’ goals to achieve this ‘energy transition’ by shutting down our affordable and reliable energy resources, resource-rich rogue nations like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela will fill the void."Meanwhile, President Biden has takento curb U.S.
"As a senior member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and the Energy Subcommittee, we will continue pushing back on the Biden Administration’s war to throttle U.S. energy production and promoting policies that secure our nation’s energy independence," Latta added.
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