{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=FB19AE0B-02AA-4F2A-A83E-7FBDA903E0AC", "Biden Admin. Strangles American Energy While China Surges Forward", "2023-12-14", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Mitch McConnell", "M000355", "www.mcconnell.senate.gov", "mcconnell", "https://www.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) delivered the following remarks today on the Senate floor regarding left-wing climate policy:\n\n\u201cThis week, the United Nations wrapped up its latest conference on climate change. World leaders took private jets to Dubai, and the Biden Administration\u2019s Special Climate Envoy, John Kerry, returned triumphant with\u2026 a joint statement condemning the evils of coal power.\n\n\u201cElite liberals sure are obsessed with killing jobs in places like Kentucky. But that\u2019s only the half of it.\n\n\u201cYet again, the maximum hardships the Biden Administration is happy to heap on American workers and consumers are producing no meaningful benefits on the world stage.\n\n\u201cThe past three years have been an endless parade of canceled permits and new regulations that make it harder than ever to produce affordable and reliable American energy.\n\n\u201cBy cancelling the Keystone XL pipeline on Day One, President Biden also cancelled as many as 59,000 jobs needed to build it.\n\n\u201cAnd now, the President\u2019s envoy has returned with another meaningless pledge that doesn\u2019t even compel the world\u2019s biggest emitters of carbon.\n\n\u201cJust look at the numbers. U.S. emissions are projected to fall by 4% this year. Meanwhile, China\u2019s are projected to increase by twice as much!\n\n\u201cLast year, Beijing green-lit four times as much new coal power as they did the year before. But the Biden Administration apparently wants us to believe its American producers and job creators and workers who aren\u2019t pulling their weight.\n\n\u201cSo, the UN climate conference is a good reminder that the elite left-wing obsession with self-inflicted climate penance is not just an American problem.\n\n\u201cCanada\u2019s liberal government, for its part, has a bold new plan: paying farmers to make sure their cattle don\u2019t burp so much.\n\n\u201cApparently, Canada\u2019s plan is built around a carbon credit \u2013 the nebulous commodity that supposedly negates carbon emissions from activities like flying private jets.\n\n\u201cExcept in this case, the subjects aren\u2019t elites looking to ease their conscience on the way to a conference in Dubai. They\u2019re the workers who put food on the table!\n\n\u201cCanada\u2019s so-called \u2018Reducing Methane Emissions from Beef Cattle\u2019 proposal would grant carbon credits to farmers who feed their cows special diets to reduce burping.\n\n\u201cWell, it sounds an awful lot like the way Washington bureaucrats try to tell middle-class Americans what kind of car to drive and what kind of stove to use.\n\n\u201cIt sounds entirely ridiculous.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:56:20Z"]], "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.mcconnell.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/pressreleases?ID=FB19AE0B-02AA-4F2A-A83E-7FBDA903E0AC"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6875071451067924, "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"}