Monday, the Alabama House Republican Caucus announced that it had approved a resolution urging President Joe Biden to restore United States energy independence.
The resolution, authored by State Rep. Arnold Mooney (R-Indian Springs), also calls on the commander-in-chief to take a number of steps to strengthen national defense.
The resolution calls for the following:
- Restore the production of oil and gas in the United States that existed prior to this administration taking office.
- Lift all new regulations that deny the United States the capacity to produce its own energy, which previously amounted to 13 million barrels a day, and ship that energy to Baltic countries, Germany and around the world.
- Immediately reverse the policies that are raising the costs of energy, which gravely threaten the United States’ sovereignty and undermine the world’s stability.
- Immediately lift all COVID-19 restrictions on all businesses to restore economic prosperity in order to pay for increased defense spending.
- Immediately harden electric grids against Electro Magnetic Pulse and other cyber warfare attacks. Accelerate modernization of the United States strategic and tactical nuclear deterrents.
- Revive the Strategic Defense Initiative in order for the United States Space Force to deploy space-based missile defenses, like Brilliant Pebbles, to render opposing nuclear missiles obsolete.
- Prioritize securing United States borders by closing all borders to illegal immigrants and deporting all illegal aliens.
In a statement, Mooney slammed the Biden administration on numerous fronts and called the House GOP Caucus’ resolution a “roadmap” to “restore sanity.”
“In just one year of the Biden presidency, the United States has gone from being an energy independent nation under Donald Trump to one that relies upon Russia and other rogue nations for its oil and gas needs,” advised Mooney. “At the same time, reckless spending by Democrats has caused consumer prices to skyrocket across the board, and the Pentagon seems intent on transforming our armed forces into a leftist social experiment rather than the most powerful fighting force the world has ever known. This Alabama House Republican Caucus resolution offers a roadmap on how to restore sanity to U.S. policy at a critical time in world history.”
House Majority Leader Nathaniel Ledbetter (R-Rainsville) said that the nation is experiencing a “vacuum of leadership” under the current administration.
“With events in Ukraine escalating by the minute and U.S. inflation outpacing even the worst days of the Carter presidency, it is becoming increasingly clear that a vacuum of leadership currently exists in the Oval Office,” proclaimed Ledbetter. “The members of our House Republican Caucus are committed to shielding our state from the side effects of the Biden administration’s policy failures while keeping Alabama’s economy strong and jobs growing.”
Dylan Smith is a staff writer for Yellowhammer News. You can follow him on Twitter @DylanSmithAL
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