Today, in the face of record gas prices, inflation, severe drought and catastrophic wildfires, the House Committee on Natural Resources majority began a markup on legislation to regulate the ownership of "Big Cats."
"With the committee having not met to mark up legislation in more than two months, I’d hoped we’d be coming back today to consider bills lowering sky-high energy costs, addressing drought in the West, mitigating catastrophic wildfires, or bringing immediate relief to any other of the myriad crises plaguing our country and impacting millions of Americans," House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) said during the markup. "That’s why, when I saw the majority’s big-ticket item on today’s agenda was a bill to regulate big cat ownership, I wondered, 'maybe we should stop streaming our subscription services and turn on the local news broadcast?'... Americans are not talking about tigers; they’re feeling their budgets getting tighter as gasoline prices have skyrocketed to a record national average of $4.91 per gallon. Meanwhile, though we should be expanding production of American energy here at home, our constituents are watching President Biden call on Iran and Venezuela for oil and natural gas and lift tariffs on solar panels constructed by slave labor overseas – a major giveaway China’s state subsidized companies and the Chinese Communist Party."
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