Ron Wyden Slams The Big Beautiful Bill: ‘The Republican Plan Will Raise Your Energy Bills’

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During remarks on the Senate floor on Tuesday, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) discussed the Big Beautiful Bill.

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00:0054 and the nays are 46. Three-fifths of the senator is duly chosen and sworn not

00:04having voted in the affirmative. The motion is not agreed to. The point of

00:08order is sustained and the amendment fail or false.

00:17Mr. President, Majority Leader. I ask unanimous consent that it be in order for the following

00:21senators to be recognized to offer amendments, motions, or points of order.

00:24The amendments be reported by number with no amendments in order prior to a

00:27vote in relation to amendments or motions. White motion to commit. Hirono, number

00:312382. Warnock, motion to commit. Lee, number 2745. Kim, number 2817. Ernst, number 2372.

00:40Sanders, number 2435 with 60 affirmative votes required.

00:45Is there objection? Without objection. Mr. President, I would suggest to my colleagues

00:51that we get this vote started and that when we get it we're going to start voting in our seats

00:56and we're going to start doing 10-minute votes.

01:14Senator from Oregon. I have a motion to commit at the desk.

01:19Clerk will report. The senator from Oregon, Mr. Wyden, moves to commit the bill H.R. 1 to the committee on

01:26finance of the Senate with instructions to report the same back to the Senate in three days.

01:30I ask that further reading of the motion be dispensed with.

01:33Senator from Oregon. Without objection.

01:37Mr. President and colleagues, Republicans started out planning to repeal the tax credits that finance

01:44Democrats wrote for wind and solar energy. Then it got a whole lot worse. The Republican plan actually

01:51taxes clean energy. Taxes raise energy bills. The Republican plan will raise your energy bills.

02:00If this passes, it is a death sentence for the wind and solar industries and hundreds of thousands of

02:07American jobs. It's a surrender to China on clean energy manufacturing. Leader Schumer and my colleagues

02:14on our side all support this effort. If you're for all of the above energy, something I've heard my

02:20Republican colleagues say. You'll support my motion to commit the bill back to the finance committee

02:25to strike the cuts to clean energy.

02:32Senator from Utah.

02:33Mr. President, I'd love and respect my friend and colleague from Oregon, but I disagree with

02:37every word he just uttered, including but and and the. Look, the energy and natural resources title of this

02:43bill is one of the most consequential pieces of energy legislation we've had in decades. It increases

02:49production on federal lands and it eliminates wasteful spending at both interior and energy

02:54departments that have prioritized intermittent, non-reliable, non-baseload sources of power,

03:01ultimately driving up the cost of living and the cost of power. We can and do reduce energy prices by

03:07increasing development of our vast energy natural resources. I strongly urge my colleagues to oppose this

03:14amendment. Ask for the yeas and nays. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be. Clerk will call the roll.

03:25Ms. Also Brooks, Ms. Baldwin, Mr. Banks, Mr. Brasso, Mr. Bennett, Mrs. Blackburn, Mr. Blumenthal,

03:36Ms. Blunt Rochester, Mr. Booker, Mr. Bozeman, Mrs. Britt, Mr. Budd, Mr. Bud, Mr.

04:06Mr. Bailey, Ms. Cantwell. Miss Cantwell, Mrs. Campbell, Mr. Smith, Mr. Campbell.

04:33Mrs. Capito.

04:34Do we have anybody around here?

04:36The spell was right out there.

04:39Yeah, thank you.

04:44Mr. Cassidy.

04:59Mr. Cassidy.

05:03Ms. Collins.

05:17Mr. Coons.

05:21Mr. Cornyn.

05:28Mr. Cornyn.

05:32Ms. Cortez Mastel.

05:38Mr. Cotton.

05:46Mr. Kramer.

05:50Mr. Crapo.

05:55Mr. Crapo.

05:55Mr. Cruz.

06:03Mr. Cruz.

06:07Mr. Cruz.

06:15Mr. Cruz.

06:18Mr. Cruz.

06:20Mr. Cruz.

06:21Mr. Cruz.

06:24Mr. Cruz.

06:25Mr. Cruz.

06:28Mr. Cruz.

06:30Mr. Cruz.

06:31Mr. Cruz.

07:04Mr. Danes, Ms. Duckworth, Mr. Durbin, Ms. Ernst, Mr. Fetterman, Mrs. Fisher, Mr.

07:33Gillibrand, Mr. Graham, Mr. Grassley, Mr. Haggerty.

07:57Ms. Hassan, Mr. Hawley, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Hickenlooper, Ms. Hirono, Mr. Hoven.

08:22Mr. Husted, Mrs. Hyde-Smith, Mr. Johnson.

08:40Mr. Justice, Mr. Cain, Mr. Kelly.

08:51Mr. Kennedy.

08:58Mr. Kim.

09:02Mr. King.

09:10Ms. Klobuchar.

09:13Mr. Langford.

09:25Mr. Lee, Mr. Lujan, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Markey, Mr. Marshall, Mr. McConnell, Mr. McCormick, Mr.

09:44Merkley.

09:51Mrs. Moody, Mr. Moran, Mr. Moreno.

09:59Mr. Mulan, Ms. Murkowski, Mr. Murphy, Mrs. Murray.

10:15Mr. Ossoff, Mr. Padilla, Mr. Paul, Mr. Peters, Mr. Reed, Mr. Ricketts, Mr. Risch, Ms. Rosen, Mr.

10:38Mr. Rounds, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Schatz, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schiff, Mr. Schmidt.

11:07Mr. Schumacher.

11:12Mr. Scott of Florida.

11:16Mr. Scott of South Carolina.

11:21Ms. Shaheen, Mr. Chehee.

11:25Ms.

11:27Ms. Slotkin.

11:31Ms. Smith, Mr. Sullivan.

11:37Mr. Thune.

11:53Mr. Tillis, Mr. Tuberville, Mr. Van Hollen, Mr. Warner, Mr. Warnock, Ms. Warren, Mr. Welch, Mr. Whitehouse,

12:20Mr. Wicker, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Young.

12:30Senators voting in the affirmative.

12:40Also Brooks, Baldwin, Bennett, Blumenthal, Blount Rochester, Booker,

12:46Cantwell, Coons, Cortez Masto, Duckworth, Durbin, Gallego, Hassan, Heinrich, Hickenlooper,

12:54Hirono, Kane, Kim, King, Klobuchar, Lujan, Markey, Merkley, Murphy, Murray, Ossoff,

13:02Padilla, Peters, Reed, Rosen, Sanders, Schatz, Schiff, Schumer, Shaheen, Slotkin, Smith,

13:10Van Hollen, Warner, Warnock, Warren, Wyden, Mr. Whitehouse, aye.

13:18Senators voting the negative.

13:21Banks, Barrasso, Britt, Bud, Cassidy, Cornyn, Cotton, Kramer, Crapo, Cruz, Curtis, Danes, Ernst, Fisher, Graham, Grassley, Hagerty, Hoven, Husted, Hyde, Smith, Justice, Kennedy, Lankford, Lee,

13:29Lummis, Marshall, McCormick, Moody, Moran, Mullin, Paul, Ricketts, Risch, Rounds, Schmidt, Scott of Florida, Sheehy, Tuberville, Wicker.

13:59Mr. Hawley, no.

14:05Mrs. Blackburn, no.

14:29Mr. Moreno, no.

14:39Mr. Welch, Mr. Welch, aye.

14:52Mr. Bozeman, no.

15:18Mr. Young, Mr. Young, no.

15:39Mr. Young, no.

15:43Mr. Young, no.

15:51Mr. Kelly, Mr. Kelly, aye.

15:56Mr. Thune, Mr. Thune, no.

16:01Mr. Tgroup, no.

16:16Let's go.

16:19Mr. humbled.

16:21Mr. Prince Young, I'm the head of the Bermuda.

16:53Mr. Fetterman, Mr. Fetterman, no.

17:10Mr. McConnell, Mr. McConnell, no.

17:23Mr. Fetterman, aye.

17:44Mr. Johnson, no.

17:48Mrs. Gillibrand, aye.

17:52Mr. Scott of South Carolina, no.

17:56Mr. Scott of South Carolina, no.

18:04Mr. Scott of South Carolina, no.

18:06Mr. Sullivan, no.

18:28Mr. Sullivan, no.

18:35Mrs. Capito, no.

18:44Mr. Scott of South Carolina, no.

18:56Mr. Scott of South Carolina, no.

19:06Mr. Tillis, Mr. Tillis, no.

21:36Ms. Collins, no.

21:51Ms. Murkowski, no.

22:29The ayes are 47, the nays are 53.

22:31The motion is not agreed to.

22:35On this vote, the ayes are 47, the nays are 53.

22:41The motion is not agreed to.

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