Source: United States Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer, member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, joined Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) in introducing the Preempting Misguided Appeasement and Financing of Destabilizing Regimes Act. The bill would prohibit the importation of Iranian and Venezuelan crude oil, petroleum, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas into the United States.
“The fact that Joe Biden is rumored to be negotiating with Venezuela for crude oil is so offensive. Even worse, he may be willing to give Iran, the world’s largest sponsor of terror, billions of dollars a day by removing sanctions for their oil. It’s hard to believe we would trade one despot in Russia for two despots in Venezuela and Iran. We can produce more energy here with the gold standard of labor and environmental protections. Our bill would stop this by banning the import of oil and natural gas from Iran and Venezuela,” said Senator Cramer.
“The United States is blessed to have a plentiful supply of oil and natural gas — we should be using it,” said Senator Rubio. “American-produced energy is cleaner and provides good jobs for American workers, yet the Biden Administration would rather appease dictatorships in Iran and Venezuela in return for bad deals and false promises. Under no circumstance should we be funneling money into the hands of dictators and narco-terrorists who are also allies of Vladimir Putin. Enough is enough — it’s time to bring energy production back home.”
Senators Cramer and Rubio were joined by Senators Dan Sullivan (R-AK), Steve Daines (R-MT), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and John Hoeven (R-ND).
Background:
In the last week, Senator Cramer has helped introduce a number of bills to ban Russian energy imports and unleash American energy production, including: