Biff_Poindexter
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Marjorie Taylor Greene amendment to bar Biden from selling oil suffers massive defeat - Washington Examiner
An amendment pushed by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to bar President Joe Biden from selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve crashed and burned in a massive bipartisan defeat Thursday. The amendment failed 14-418, with only 14 Republicans in support. In announcing the amendment, Greene...
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"An amendment pushed by Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to bar President Joe Biden from selling oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve crashed and burned in a massive bipartisan defeat Thursday. The amendment failed 14-418, with only 14 Republicans in support. In announcing the amendment, Greene accused Biden of being a threat to the nation's national security and tricking and deceiving voters by pulling from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to lower gas prices. Evidently, not many other lawmakers agreed or thought the amendment prudent.
The reserve was depleted after Biden ordered hundreds of millions of barrels of oil to be drawn down last year on an emergency basis to help tame high gasoline prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the resulting spike in oil prices. However, last December, the Department of Energy said it would begin purchasing oil to refill the reserve following a dip in prices."
Marjorie Greene's proposal was the right move to make in order to expose Biden's impeachable act of trying to use his power as president to lower gas prices.....After months and months of Republicans blaming Biden for rising gas prices and wondering why Biden isn't doing anything about it -- he decides to do something about it right before the election?? How is that not an impeachable offense?? And how is that the majority of GOP House members vote against it? What is McCarthy doing? Why didn't Scalese whip enough votes to get this passed? Why are they protecting Biden??