The House Energy Action Team (HEAT) is a coalition of Members of Congress who support the development, deployment, and efficient use of all-of-the-above energy resources. Reps. Markwayne Mullin and Jeff Duncan serve as co-chairs. Energy Security is National Security "We should be producing energy at home, not enriching foreign adversaries abroad,” said President Trump on a recent trip to a Louisiana. He's right. Look at some of the largest global energy suppliers: Russia, Iran, China, Venezuela. Are these the hands we want on the global energy spigot? As Republicans finish out this session week and head home for Memorial Day, we will keep advocating for all-of-the-above energy solutions that keep Americans safe and reduce our reliance on foreign energy. Democrats, on the other hand, must be held accountable for their plans to ban the very resources that are turning the United States into a net energy exporter for the first time since the 1950s. American energy: a stabilizing force in an unstable world

• For decades energy markets have been subject to the disruption and manipulation of international politics.
  • In the 1970's OPEC imposed an oil embargo against the U.S. and our many of our allies as punishment for our support for Israel during the 1973 Arab-Israeli War.
  • The U.S. has traditionally been vulnerable to market manipulation by our adversaries but that has changed in the past decade. We are now producing more energy than we can consume.
• As a result of instability and poor socialist governance, crude oil production in Venezuela has fallen to their lowest levels since January 2003.

• U.S. sanctions against Iran's terrorist-financing regime are also depressing Iranian oil exports, in turn dragging OPEC's oil output down to four-year lows.
• Meanwhile, American producers are stepping in to fill the gap. Reuters reports, "booming U.S. output will offset falling exports from Iran and Venezuela."
• American energy dominance is a win-win for American workers and our economic leverage on the world stage.

Russia's liquid natural gas "blackmail'

• For years, Russia has abused its near-monopoly as a liquid natural gas supplier in Europe to punish countries for political purposes.
  • Russia has repeatedly cut off the natural gas supply to Ukraine in the middle of the winter.
  • Poland's president recently described how Russia uses control of the European gas market for "political blackmail."
  • Germany has spent $580 billion to overhaul its energy system to meet unrealistic goals but is falling short. Instead, Germany is becomingincreasingly reliant upon Russian pipelines for natural gas.

• The Trump Administration recently streamlined permitting for U.S. LNG exports so that our allies in Europe and elsewhere abroad "can never be held hostage to a single supplier."
  • Dozens of countries have signed U.S. energy supply deals over the past two years.
  • Poland, who until recently was completely dependent on Russia for LNG, just signed their third contract with American LNG companies this year.

BOTTOM LINE: American energy dominance helps our economy at home and our friends around the world. Democrat policies would make us once again energy-dependent upon foreign states like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.