congressman and member of the house
energy and commerce committee and the
intelligence committee mark wayne mullen
he is also on the house energy action
team
congressman welcome thank you for having
me appreciate it you heard your
colleague congressman sherman on
spending how do you respond
listen the democrats they believe that
you can tax your way out of spending
uh we have almost a 30 trillion dollar
deficit
and their idea is to tax more uh while
they're still trying to spend more i
mean you got a 1.9 trillion dollar
infrastructure tax
or bill and only six percent of it goes
to infrastructure
and they want to talk about raising
corporate taxes yet corporations are the
ones that create jobs
that create the tax revenue for
washington d.c to spend
it it's it's asinine so the white house
has dropped its
package to 1.7 trillion or so
republicans are at 568 billion and your
thought in your mind is there a sweet
spot
in between those two where a deal could
be struck well listen
115 billion dollars is what their
infrastructure bill
that the 1.7 now 1.7 trillion dollar
infrastructure bill 115 billion only
goes to actual infrastructure
so let's narrow it down and actually
look at
the infrastructure that we're going to
use the infrastructure on broadband
especially in rural areas roads and
bridges and waterways
uh and then and and take away all the
fat and just get to the to the crutch of
the issues and that's infrastructure and
then we can talk about
actually having an infrastructure plan
the dollar on that will depend on
uh on what we need to spend but i don't
think either side actually knows
what it is yet i think 560 billion
is uh is probably close but once again
we need to figure out how to pay for it
to move forward
sure uh okay so you represent
traditional energy country we just had
this colonial pipeline
hack uh last week and a half or so um
should something related to cyber
defense be included in an infrastructure
package
you know our the the countries that are
not friendly to the united states china
iran russia are constantly attacking
or indirectly or directly attacking our
corporations
and and we saw a dark side which i know
biden came out and said that russia
doesn't have anything to do with it
which is an absolute
joke because russia is harboring them
allowing them to stay there
and they received 4.4 billion dollars in
ransom money and so
those dollars have to be put in some
type of financial system which is into
russia so russia is harboring them
without question
uh they're attacking it and we are
allowing the
the or relying on our corporations to
fight a foreign entity
we need to make sure that we're in that
fight with them if they took
a person a united states a citizen
hostage
we would be in that fight in retrieving
that individual
and it's the same thing we need to look
at at cyber security we need to get in
the fight and be more proactive not just
reactive we should now
we should never allow a foreign country
either directly or indirectly to come in
and attack
corporations inside the united states
seeing that hack of the colonial
pipeline does that
reiterate or re-emphasize the importance
to this country of traditional energy
sources
such as those that are worked on in the
great state of oklahoma
absolutely listen oklahoma is all the
above energy a lot of people don't
realize that
oklahoma is number two in renewable
energy in all the
in all 50 states around the united
states
number two to texas we don't like
talking about that but they have more
landmass
and so we can do all the above we can
actually do wind and solar and water
with hydro
and and and the traditional fossil fuels
and we can have reliable security energy
and listen reliable energy brings in
global security uh when and what i mean
by that is
is energy is the lifeblood of every
economy
and when we can have reliable energy
inside the united states not having all
of our eggs in one basket but having all
the above you can have a
thriving economy but when you use like
the bite administration that wants to
pick winners and losers and and cancel
the keystone pipeline what we saw
is year-to-date we see a 160 percent
increase in energy prices
because the buying administration we
lost thousands of jobs because of the
biden administration
because they're picking winners and
losers the economy the way the united
states economy works
is we is the government creates
opportunities for entrepreneurs to
thrive
and meet the demand that the market
calls for the market decides not the
government but yet this
this government or this administration
through biden
they want to say hey we know best well
they don't because our energy cost is
going through the roof
congressman mark wayne mullen of the
great state of oklahoma congressman
thanks very much for your time thanks
for having me