Markwayne Mullin
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206 appearances
9 recordings
7 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard 3 Jun
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Well, it's not just Oklahoma. It's North Dakota. It's Texas. It's Pennsylvania. It's all of our energy states, including California. People forget California is actually an energy state.
When we declared a national emergency, what it does is it puts that permit reform that we've been trying to pass in Congress for a long time, it puts it in hyperspeed where we don't have to add the permit reforms, where we just simply can bypass a lot of the stuff that is happening with pipelines. People don't really think about pipelines being...
about energy but it's one of the biggest choke points that the biden administration put in place one thing they did when they immediately went in is they declassified a lot of the pipelines in instead of allowing them to run at 100 capacity they put them at 20 on new ones they dropped some to 50 capacity so they changed the permitting process it brings that back to full uh to to full capacity
And it allows us to move the product faster. As you know, Charlie, that brings down the cost of energy when you're able to get the product to the system faster without competing on the same level. At the same time, it starts opening up public lands where the Biden administration basically eliminated the ability to get permits on public land.
It opens up Alaska again, which Alaska is a huge economic engine that the Biden administration just collapsed and killed. And then it opens up offshore drilling to where as the president was leaving. And keep in mind, the executive order to make it a national security issue was a way to go around the executive order.
that the outgoing Biden administration put in place that basically took all of our waters up to international and said there was a moratorium on offshore drilling. And the president, very smart, and I'm sure he had great people around him that was advising him on this too, by declaring it a national emergency, it takes it off the table and we can drill again until we get to energy independence.
And when we become the exporter, It puts us as a much stronger position, and what a lot of people don't realize, too, is we're still importing petroleum products from Russia. So we're still funding the war in Ukraine that we're funding Ukraine to fight against, and then we're funding Russia. So this takes that actually off the plate, too.
Yeah, we do, and we needed to use it more strategically too. A lot of people think Saudi Arabia is being the oil capital of the world. The United States is the oil capital of the world. We have more reserves from oil, natural gas, and rare earth minerals underneath our feet, but because of the environmental movement, it has put us at a huge disadvantage.
But one thing that we don't talk about, Charlie, is what Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, these other countries do by setting up a sovereign wealth fund for their country by the reserves that they have. Let's think if we re-look at the way that we do public land permitting.
Instead of just simply giving the permitting to the oil and gas companies, and we have a one-time fee where they get the permit, we sell it, and then they go on. What if we actually entered a partnership like you do with private land, like I do on my own private land? I control the mineral rights and I get a percentage of the minerals that are pulled off the land.
What if we did that with the United States on the public lands, and then we started applying that 100% to our national debt, and we start using the natural resources we have to pay off our national debt? Because you know Congress is never going to be trusted with actually being able to do our budget because we're going to be playing these games.
We're going to have a 10-year balanced budget, which we've been doing 10-year balanced budgets forever, and we still haven't balanced it. But if we directly took the resources we have and said that those funds had to be applied to national debt, we could actually see in our lifetime, Charlie, you and I, the country could be out of debt.
Now, here's the craziest thing, Charlie. Keep in mind, these individuals, ICE knew where they were at, and they were openly still walking on our street underneath the Biden administration. The Biden administration refused to pick them up. On day one... President Trump went and rounded up more serious criminals and murderers than the Biden administration did in four years.
Keep in mind, these individuals were out on the streets and ICE knew exactly where they're at. That's why they were able to do it on day one. What they're also not telling there is they also went into the prisons. And ICE arrested and started the deportation of an additional 300 murderers and rapists that was in our prison systems.
That once again, the Biden administration knew they were there and they chose to leave them inside the United States. It really blows your mind to think that the administration, that the outgoing president of the United States underneath Biden refused to enforce the rule of law.
I heard from several border agents that I've become friends with of my trips to the border that all came back and they said the same thing I said earlier today. It's a new day in America when they're actually able to do their job. And the morale increased by a thousand percent yesterday with our border patrol just because we have a new sheriff in the White House.
Well, the president has made it very clear he wants one big, beautiful bill, which allows us to negotiate more. Now, the House is real good about bogging down on big bills. But when you start looking at the different facets that we've got to deal with in the House, and I'll use Chip Roy, for example, in Texas. Chip, you know, very important to have border control and very important to have energy.
But at the same time, he's want to do something that's very difficult. He's wanting to offset salt increase for states like New York by raising corporate taxes, which that's a nonstarter for the president, a nonstarter for me. But it's about negotiating. And so if we were to do one big bill, it allows us to negotiate a little bit more by having more pieces in there.
And it's got something for everybody. But I don't believe the House is going to be able to do it, so we're actually doing a contingency plan in the Senate to say if they can't do that, then we will start the two bills. And the reason why we have to do two bills in the Senate is because we can't do taxes. Taxes has to originate in the House chamber, not in the Senate.
So we would have to do border taxes. do energy and do national security in the Senate, we can originate that. But then the second half of that bill, we'd still have to wait on the House because it has taxes.
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