Congressional Record, House, April 1, 2022, Page H4119
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A page of the Congressional Record, House, dated April 1, 2022, at page H4119. A speaker says the Biden administration declined to challenge in court an environmental group's suit that stopped a lease sale, and that the announced release of one million additional barrels per day for the next 6 months from oil reserves poses a national security risk by drawing down strategic reserves by over 25 percent. Another speaker, from rural Arkansas, says the Treasury's reallocation of Emergency Rental Assistance funds turns a blind eye to the needs of renters in rural areas, and says the Protecting Rural Renters Act would prevent the funds from being taken away. The page ends with a heading on transforming student debt. The remarks are the speakers' own.
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April 1, 2022 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H4119
companies didn’t want to do it. They have already received and spent their Now, several months after living
did. They wanted to invest in America. own share of Emergency Rental Assist- under President Biden’s failed energy
An environmental group went to block ance funds. policies and decisions, he has an-
it and got a court to go along with As the Treasury claws back this nounced the largest release of oil re-
them. The normal practice is the ad- money, this reallocation of funds will serves in history, putting one million
ministration stands up for America and disproportionately affect rural Amer- additional barrels on the market per
American policy and objects, and the ica. The reallocation of ERA money is day on average every day for the next
Biden administration refused to chal- unfair and turns a blind eye to the 6 months.
lenge it in the courts because they needs of renters who have not received Biden’s anti-American energy agenda
didn’t want the lease sale to go for- rental assistance simply because they jeopardizes our national security once
ward. And the lease sale did not go for- live in rural areas of our country. again.
ward. That is why no one bid on it, be- To stand up for rural Arkansans and Tapping the SPR at the levels an-
cause there was no lease sale. Americans across the country, I have nounced this week by this administra-
We fix that with these pieces of legis- introduced the Protecting Rural Rent- tion is a dangerous move. Drawing
lation we would like to bring to the ers Act, which will prohibit the ERA down our strategic reserves by over 25
floor, but we will continue this discus- funds originally promised to our rural percent poses a huge national security
sion. Hopefully, we can resolve it. We areas from being reallocated elsewhere. risk, a risk that America would not be
will continue pushing for it. This act would simply remove the in the place to take if Biden would end
Madam Speaker, I yield back the bal- State allocations from the statutory the Federal freeze on all new oil and
ance of my time. claw-backs and effectively prevent gas projects and stop the regulatory as-
f these funds from being taken away sault on U.S. energy development and
from our rural citizens. This is in the financing. Tapping the SPR will not
TRANSFORMING STUDENT DEBT best interests of our Nation. lower gas prices.
(Ms. KAPTUR asked and was given f Today is April Fools’ Day, but with
permission to address the House for 1 Biden in office you would think every
minute and to revise and extend her re- AFFIRMATIVE STEPS TOWARD
day is April Fools’ Day. However, he is
marks.) CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM
not pulling innocent pranks on the
Ms. KAPTUR. Madam Speaker, I rise (Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK American people, but he is personally
today to reintroduce our Transforming asked and was given permission to ad- harming the safety, security, and pros-
Student Debt to Home Equity Act. dress the House for 1 minute and to re- perity of America.
Home ownership is a key that opens vise and extend her remarks.)
the door to the middle class for tens of Mrs. CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK. f
millions of Americans. But today, too Madam Speaker, as the conversation ISSUES OF THE DAY
many young workers and their families around the country centers on the le-
are weighed down by student loan debt galization of marijuana, we must si- The SPEAKER pro tempore (Ms. WIL-
LIAMS of Georgia). Under the Speaker’s
that keeps this dream out of their multaneously address the criminal and
reach. racial justice issues embedded in this announced policy of January 4, 2021,
The Transforming Student Debt to conversation. the gentleman from Texas (Mr. GOH-
MERT) is recognized for 60 minutes as
Home Equity Act would create a pilot Despite cannabis usage rates between
program to test various approaches White and non-Whites being similar, the designee of the minority leader.
that combine student loan payments Black Americans are arrested for can- Mr. GOHMERT. Madam Speaker,
and mortgage payments into one nabis offenses at a rate of nearly four there is so much going on these days,
monthly bill. It would empower hard- to one compared to Whites. so much to comment on. At this time,
working Americans that are current on For decades, the war on drugs has I yield to the gentlewoman from Iowa
student loan repayments to actually been a tool to target Black and Brown (Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS), my friend, when-
combine their loan costs, allowing Americans. As a result, their life tra- ever she is ready.
them to build home equity. jectories have been impacted nega- KEVIN MCKEE IS AN INCREDIBLE ATHLETE
The purpose of this act is to move tively. Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS. Madam
forward with those pilot projects, and The MORE Act would create a Com- Speaker, I thank Mr. GOHMERT for
with millions of vacant homes around munity Reinvestment Grant Program, yielding to me.
our country, this legislation would which would provide funding for com- Madam Speaker, I rise today to
spur neighborhood revitalization and munities negatively impacted by the honor the accomplishments of an in-
improve our quality of life. war on drugs. These grants would be credible athlete from Iowa’s Second
The promises of the American Dream used for the development of District.
should be available to all, so let us lift expungement processes, employment Kevin McKee of Davenport recently
up and invest in new means to help the programs, and substance use disorder finished competing in the Beijing 2020
next generation and invest in middle- treatment. These reinvestments are Paralympics, where he won a gold
class workers and families that build imperative for our communities and medal in sled hockey. Kevin has proud-
up our Nation by investing in it. our country. ly represented the United States for
f I am proud that I voted to pass the over a decade, winning gold medals in
MORE Act today as an affirmative step the last three Paralympics.
REALLOCATING EMERGENCY Kevin has always had a passion for
toward the criminal justice reform.
RENTAL ASSISTANCE sports, playing tennis in high school
f
(Mr. HILL asked and was given per- and wheelchair basketball in college.
mission to address the House for 1 NOT AN INNOCENT APRIL FOOLS’ However, Kevin soon realized his pas-
minute and to revise and extend his re- DAY PRANK sion for sled hockey in 2020 when he
marks.) (Mr. PALAZZO asked and was given started playing on the sled hockey club
Mr. HILL. Madam Speaker, I rise permission to address the House for 1 team with the Rehabilitation Institute
today to bring attention to the attack minute and to revise and extend his re- of Chicago.
on families in rural America by the marks.) Beginning in 1960, the Paralympic
Biden administration in their realloca- Mr. PALAZZO. Madam Speaker, last Games are held every 4 years and fea-
tion of Emergency Rental Assistance year I introduced H.R. 6176, with the ture a wide range of athletes with dif-
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funds. goal of preventing the Secretary of En- ferent physical abilities, including im-
As of March 31, unspent ERA funds ergy and the President from doing ex- paired muscle power, impaired passive
from rural States, like my home State actly what they announced this week, range of motion, limb deficiency, leg
of Arkansas, are being taken and given tapping the Strategic Petroleum Re- length difference, hypertonia, ataxia,
to a handful of blue States, like New serve without issuing a plan for Amer- athetosis, vision impairment, and in-
York, California, and New Jersey, who ican energy independence. tellectual impairment. The
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