Congressman David Rouzer spoke on the House floor this week about the Russian-Ukraine war. He called Putin’s actions “pure genocide and evil,” comparing it to Hitler’s invasion of Poland.
The Republican representative called on the U.S. to bolster its support to Ukrainians, shipping out more resources.
“We must send more weapons, more planes, more missiles, whatever is needed,” he pleaded. “The Ukrainians are going to fight to the very end. We must provide them every resource they need to win this war in whatever way that we possibly can. For, if freedom is defeated in Ukraine, where her people fight eagerly and will to the very end, it will surely have no safe harbor elsewhere.”
He stressed the need to ban Russian oil imports as well. President Biden signed an order Mar. 8 to cease the import of the country’s oil. While Rouzer called this a good step, he criticized it too “late and only after mounting bipartisan pressure to do so.”
“There is no good reason for the United States to ever subsidize the Russian economy and President Putin’s military by buying oil from Russia, a source of Putin’s leverage with the West for years,” he said.
He also spoke against the Iran Nuclear Deal, reportedly nearing a revival. More than 50 House Republicans have backed a resolution disapproving of the deal. Rouzer maintains his position is the U.S. should not sit alongside Russia and negotiate with Iran on a deal “that paves Iran’s path to a nuclear weapon — another pot of trouble brewing for the world, as evidenced by their missiles launched at Israelis and Americans in Iraq this past weekend.”
He also advocated for replacing Russian energy with American energy by authorizing new leases and permits for oil and gas projects, expediting the approval of all pipelines and reducing restrictions on U.S. energy development and financing.
“Given all the challenges we face in the world today, we must immediately unleash American energy production so that we in the United States and our allies around the world can have access to affordable and reliable energy,” Rouzer said.
He stressed Biden could reverse, “with the stroke of a pen,” the anti-fossil fuel policies the president has put in place.
“If the president wants to lower gas prices at the pump and protect the environment, he is the one person who can do it … The world is going to meet its energy needs with oil and gas one way or the other, it’s just a question from where it comes,” Rouzer said. “We can do it better and cleaner than anyone else. So why not do it here and serve the call of freedom.”
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