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Is Mexico Doing Enough to Combat Mexican Drug Cartels?
We are at war with the Mexican drug cartels, and Mexico needs to do more if we want to win this war. Yesterday I questioned DEA Associate Administrator Jon DeLena on Mexico’s cooperation with the U.S. on preventing fentanyl from coming across our borders. His response: they need to do more. The Mexican drug cartels are smuggling this deadly drug in droves into our country, killing tens of thousands of Americans. It’s time to go after them. That’s why I introduced the “Declaring War on the Cartels Act” to increase criminal penalties for the cartels, and an Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) to target the cartels with the strength of our military. The leaders of the Jalisco & Sinaloa cartels—Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes and Ismael Zambada García—have blood on their hands. It’s time for Mexico to step up and seize the cartel’s drug labs, and finally assist the United States in taking them down.
The U.S. Needs to Mine Critical Minerals. Not China.
Let’s be honest, the sage grouse is nothing but a fancy looking chicken, as I point out in this hearing about energy security. But it’s random species like the sage grouse and useless plants like Tiehm’s buckwheat (yes, Tiehm’s buckwheat) that radical environmentalists believe are more important than our ability to produce reliable, affordable energy here in America. They are so radical that they won’t even let us use the land to mine the minerals necessary for the solar panels and wind farms they love so much (even though these renewables are neither reliable nor affordable without massive government subsidies). Just last week, Biden denied mining for critical minerals on a massive part of the Minnesota wilderness due to “environmental concerns.” The mining that Biden blocked would give us copper, nickel, cobalt, and more, all necessary for renewable energy projects. It’s also the only sizable place in the country where we get taconite—a critical material to make steel. Steel goes into every single structure around you, and guess who our biggest steel competitor is? China. And you know what is worse for the environment than potentially disrupting the sage grouse or Tiehm’s buckwheat habitat? Letting countries with zero environmental or human rights standards mine these critical minerals (China uses slave labor to make the solar panels we import into the United States). America has the highest environmental and labor standards in the world when it comes to energy production and we are blessed with abundant resources necessary for energy innovation. Let’s just make it easier to produce things here and export those things to the rest of the world. Sound good?
Yes, I'm Promoting Oil & Gas
We can’t survive on a wind & solar-only energy future, and that’s a tough pill for radical environmentalists to swallow. The reality is that the quickest way to reduce global emissions is to increase domestic oil & gas production. Our cleaner natural gas needs to displace dirty foreign energy. This alone would have a larger impact on global emissions than any other solution. It’s time for radical climate activists to get their head out of the sand and talk about real solutions to energy. We can’t sacrifice reliable energy for radical ideas. American lives depend on it.
Dan Crenshaw Speaks on House Floor on Bipartisan ATF Accountability Act Following Pistol Brace Ban
For far too long, the ATF has trampled on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. It’s sickening. We saw this most recently with a new rule banning the use of pistol braces—a shameless slap in the face to disabled veterans. My bill will establish an appeals process that brings ATF in line with most other federal regulatory bodies, and allows small business owners an avenue to fight these unconstitutional attacks—without having to spend tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars challenging the federal government in court. Overzealous, anti-gun government bureaucrats shouldn’t get the final say on blocking Americans from exercising their fundamental rights.
Biden Is Lying to You About the Debt Crisis
I’m getting sick of the lies that Democrats are spewing about the debt ceiling and Social Security and Medicare. Let’s get some facts straight: No one wants to default on the debt. Republicans are just going to implement spending brakes when we raise the debt ceiling. That’s all. Democrats are lying when they say we want to default. If you got a crazy credit card bill at the end of the month, and you needed to raise your credit limit, wouldn’t you change your spending habits? That’s all the GOP wants to do. Republicans aren’t even talking about reforms to Social Security and Medicare, so I don’t know where they get this from. If anything, the Democrats’ refusal to address the insolvency of these programs will lead to massive benefit cuts automatically when they run out of money (benefits get cut automatically when they go insolvent within the next decade). It’s extremely irresponsible to politicize the problems with social security and Medicare to score cheap political points. But that’s Democrats for you. Fun fact: if Democrats hadn’t demonized President Bush’s reforms to Social Security in 2004, and killed any chance of his plan passing Congress, then the program would be perfectly sustainable now. My generation wouldn’t have a thing to worry about if it weren’t for Democrats’ disingenuous political games. Hear that @potus? Stop lying. Tell Americans the truth.
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