On 6/17/2022, Kamala Harris greeted a new shipment of baby formula brought from overseas this week to try and ease the crippling shortage. The vice president and second gentleman, Doug Emhoff, met with aviation workers helping with the formula delivery at Dulles Airport outside Washington, D.C. Harris says there is more work to do, “There is no doubt there is more work to do. We have seen progress, but the work that we need to do is to continue to move the formula as quickly as possible and get it on the shelves.”
The Biden Administration’s FDA ignored the formula shortage when a major baby formula plant was shut down by the FDA in Michigan months ago. Now after months of shortages, the Biden Administration reports that they have secured baby formula coming into the United States. Kamala Harris celebrated this event.
On 6/16/2022, Senator James Lankford continues to call out the Biden Administration for its anti-US energy policies that he says are doing nothing substantive to fight high inflation. Lankford spoke on the US Senate floor today to remind Americans, his Senate colleagues, and the White House that we need more energy of all types in the US to keep prices low and keep America’s economy growing.
And gas prices? Oh, hello. Gas prices—that really has had an effect. This is gas prices since January of 2017. Again, we look and stay about the same until January of 2021. I wonder what happened then.
And then look at this. And in the conversation about gas prices, that from the Administration lately has been it’s all Putin’s fault, well, here’s the rising gas prices since President Biden’s inauguration right there, and right there is the war that began in Russia. So, this little increase right here is the part that’s actually there. This is consumer price inflation. This is on gas prices. Same thing, to be able to see this flat line on gas prices, that spike … This has been ongoing since late January 2021.
We all remember very well this moment during the presidential campaign when President Biden was campaigning, and he walks over to a young lady in the campaign stop and says, ‘Look at my eyes. I guarantee you we’re going to end fossil fuel. I guarantee you.’ That was this moment that happened here. This is not something totally accidental. It was a drive to say we’ve got to shift to solar, we’ve got to shift to wind, we’ve got to shift to hydro, we’ve got to shift to other things, and we’re going to get rid of fossil fuels and we’re going to accelerate that as fast as possible.
Now I have to tell you, I live in a state that we use a lot of wind power. We use a lot of solar power. We use hydro power. We have a very diverse energy portfolio. But right now the people in my state are paying much higher prices for gasoline, much higher prices for natural gas, much higher prices for electricity because the policies that have been put in place are driving up the cost, and people feel it. This is what it looks like at this point. This is the last 24 months of retail average prices.
Right there, January 2021, and then to be able to see what’s happening in prices all over the country. Now, the Administration’s response just in the past couple of weeks has been this statement. President Biden said ‘my Administration is going to continue to do everything it can to lower prices for the American people.’ I love the word ‘continue’ to be in there. They’re going to ‘continue’ to do everything that they can. They’re going to keep doing these things that clearly have driven up prices overwhelmingly on the American people.
It was, let’s say, Putin’s fault. It’s been oil companies’ fault. It’s been refineries’ fault. That’s the new one they actually put out in the last 24 hours. This is all the fault of refineries that are just taking up too much profit. The challenge has been an ongoing attack on American energy from the very beginning. Literally day one, when President Biden canceled the Keystone Pipeline, he started his process of fulfilling his promise he made in the campaign that I ‘guarantee you I’m going to end fossil fuels.’ Day one was canceling the Keystone XL pipeline, getting crude oil from Canada, about 800,000 barrels a day. What he didn’t announce this day is we still have to have that same 800,000 barrels a day from somewhere, because it’s heavy crude. We purchase some of our heavy crude from other places, so we still have to get it. His announcement, though, on day one was we’re not going to get it from Canada. What people don’t realize is this announcement day one was we’re not going to get it from Canada. We’re going to get it from Russia. How did that foreign policy work out? Terribly. Day one, we’re not going to get oil from Canada. We’re going to get it from Russia. We’re going to get it from other places instead.
He put a moratorium on new federal oil and gas leasing. That moratorium, by the way, still stays in place in multiple areas. 24 percent of our oil and gas in the United States comes from federal lands and waters—24 percent. So, what this did was say for the future of how we’re going to develop, we’re not going to develop in those areas anymore. I’m going to cut off 24 percent of the supply coming in. Again, this goes back to his campaign promise—’I guarantee you I’m going to end fossil fuels.’ He declined to defend the Gulf Lease sale 257, that’s offshore. Basically, an environmental group went in and sued and said we don’t think they followed the process. The Administration was like, ‘we’re not going to challenge that, we’re going to let this environmental group take this whole thing down and not increase our supply of oil coming from the gulf.’
He limited seismic studies necessary for new production in the Gulf. What does that matter? Well, he has opened some areas and said ‘you can drill for more oil in these areas. Oh but, by the way, you’re allowed to do that, but if you want to do seismic testing, before you do it, which is a standard, oh, we’re not doing anymore seismic testing this whole year. We’re not going to allow you to actually prepare a site. We’re just going to tell you can do it. That’s this mode that the Administration is in, produce more oil, but ‘I’m not going to actually allow you to do that with the permitting.’
He’s failed to implement a five-year offshore leasing program. What difference does that make? By law, by law now, the Administration is required to be able to put a five-year offshore leasing proposal in place. The current one expires on June the 30th of this year. That’s days away. There is no present plan in place to be able to replace it. In fact, I personally asked Secretary Haaland, the Secretary of the Interior, and she said, ‘We plan to by June the 30th,’ the deadline to have a new one in place, ‘we plan that day to be able to put out a comment of what we could do if we do a new plan.’ And I said, ‘when will that be complete?’ Her response to me was ‘we don’t have a deadline when that will be complete.’ So, what is required by law to have a plan for how we’re going to do offshore leasing, they’re going to instead, by the day it should be in place, begin discussing when they might do it in the days ahead. Again, it goes back to we’re going to talk about it but we’re actually not going to put this lease sale plan in place.
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Harris Celebrated Arrival of Formula from Overseas. Lankford Called Out Biden for Record-High Inflation & Gas Prices.