The sponsor of the bill accused the White House of abusing the Strategic Petroleum Reserve 'as an election-year gimmick.’’ The administration claims the House bill will hurt American families.
Even before the vote, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre attacked the latest GOP proposal, which follows a bill approved two weeks ago that would prohibit the Energy Department from
“House Republicans will vote to raise gas prices on American families ... and help Putin’s war aims by interfering with our ability to release oil,’’ Jean-Pierre said Monday, referring to the current GOP bill. “These extreme policies would subject working families to immense financial pain and balloon our deficit, all just to benefit the wealthiest taxpayers and big corporations.’’
Republican Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who chairs the House Energy and Commerce Committee and sponsored the GOP bill, accused Granholm and the White House of multiple misleading claims, including an erroneous assertion that the bill could affect use of the reserve during a presidentially declared emergency.
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