Congressman Gibbs sits on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee and the House Committee on Oversight and Reform. Gibbs was chosen to chair the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, a subcommittee of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee that conducts oversight of the federal regulation of clean water, from 2011 until 2017. He is currently Ranking Member of the Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation Subcommittee.
America is blessed with an abundant supply of natural resources that can help reduce our reliance on OPEC and other nations we would not consider allies. Under the Trump administration and with a Republican Congress, we made great strides in securing North American energy independence. Our energy renaissance was so great, we began exporting oil and natural gas.
Unfortunately, under the Biden administration, that renaissance has come to a screeching halt. I support legislation to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, which President Biden canceled. I cosponsored a bill that prohibits the President from stopping hydraulic fracturing on public lands without Congress’ approval and wrote to President Biden urging for an “all-of-the-above” national energy policy that does not ignore America’s abundance of resources.
In 2021, I opposed legislation that gave more handouts and provided subsidies for wind and solar energy projects and forced the private sector to compete with government by funding billions in tax dollars to build electric vehicle charging stations.