{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-biden-administration-needs-to-take-the-handcuffs-off-american-energy-producers", "Hoeven: Biden Administration Needs to Take the Handcuffs Off American Energy Producers", "2022-10-05", "2022", "2022-10", "Republican", "Senate", "ND", "John Hoeven", "H001061", "www.hoeven.senate.gov", "hoeven", "https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases", "scraper", "Hoeven: Biden Administration Needs to Take the Handcuffs Off American Energy Producers\n\nHoeven Statement After OPEC+ Announces Cut of 2 Million Barrels Per Day in Oil Production\n\nFARGO, N.D. \u2013 Senator John Hoeven today issued the following statement after OPEC+ announced it would cut oil production by 2 million barrels per day. Hoeven spoke with Larry Kudlow yesterday about the impact of OPEC+ decisions on U.S. consumers and how the Biden administration needs to take the handcuffs off U.S. energy producers to make the U.S. energy independent once again. Clickhere to watch the interview.\n\n\u201cIncreasing U.S. oil production is needed to lower energy prices for U.S. consumers and counter OPEC\u2019s decision to cut oil production. We\u2019re in a supply crisis and consumers are paying for it because the Biden administration\u2019s policies are stifling U.S. oil production. The Biden administration needs to take the handcuffs off our domestic energy producers. By unleashing more American energy, we can lower prices and help provide hardworking families and businesses relief from record inflation caused by the Biden administration\u2019s policies. The U.S. can and should be energy independent once again.\u201d\n\nIn 2019, the U.S. produced 13 million barrels per day of oil, including 1.5 million barrels per day from North Dakota. Today, under the Biden administration, U.S. production is down to 11.8 million barrels per day and North Dakota production is just about 1 million barrels per day. Hoeven highlighted how President Biden\u2019s policies subject the U.S. to the whims of OPEC and Russia. Instead of unleashing domestic energy production, the Biden administration has been releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), and proposed buying OPEC oil to refill the SPR to keep oil prices high. This is another example of how the Biden energy policy is taking the U.S. in the wrong direction.\n\n-###-", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:34:28Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.hoeven.senate.gov/news/news-releases/hoeven-biden-administration-needs-to-take-the-handcuffs-off-american-energy-producers"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9866668842732906, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}