Midland Over Moscow

For over a week now, we have watched the tragic images and videos of war on the Ukrainian people. The time to act and help our Ukrainian partners is now. The United States stands with Ukraine, and we should fuel our country and our allies with energy from the Permian Basin!

I joined over 80 of my Republican colleagues in sending a letter with actionable steps that the President must take to reverse his harmful policies that have given Vladimir Putin the leverage to carry out his attack on Ukraine.

Specifically, we ask the President to:

• Implement meaningful permitting reform to remove unnecessary delays and bureaucratic obstacles to constructing new, modern energy infrastructure.

• Increase energy resource production on federal lands.

• Reduce the regulatory uncertainty that prevents construction of new oil and natural gas infrastructure, including pipelines and LNG export terminals.

• Develop a new, robust national rare earth and critical mineral policy that ends our reliance on China and Russia.

• Pause all new discretionary regulatory policy activity and actions that would negatively impact the oil and gas sector.

• End climate activism by federal agencies and order financial regulators to keep to their statutory mission.

We have the world’s largest oil and gas reserves; we can produce these energy resources more cleanly and efficiently than anywhere else in the world; and we should produce them. We will make clear that more U.S. production means greater energy security for our allies, lower prices for consumers at home, and more strength abroad as we undermine the Russia-China alliance.

I stand ready to implement American energy independence, and I will continue to vocally call for the administration to put Midland over Moscow! Click here to read the full letter.

Freedom is Worth Fighting For

It is inspiring to see the Lion-like courage of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is staying to lead and fight alongside his people despite multiple assassination attempts and clear danger to his family.

Many leaders would have abandoned ship, putting their own personal safety above that of their countrymen. Zelenskyy, on the other hand, is taking a stand for freedom, boldly demonstrating that freedom is worth fighting for. That a government of, by and for the people is worth defending. It is the very same idea that the United States of America was founded upon, and the very same fight our ancestors fought for during the early stages of our own inception.

In case you missed it, I wrote an Op-Ed in USA Today detailing the incredible courage and admirable strength displayed by President Zelenskyy in the face of Russia’s authoritarian aggression. Read it here or below.