WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa
Murkowski, R-Alaska, issued the following statement today in response to
Majority Leader Reid’s plan to hold a vote after the recess on raising taxes on
energy producers.
“Despite
the fact that we, as a country, need more energy, not less, Democrats appear
committed to a campaign to increase oil prices and drive investment, jobs and
oil production overseas,” Murkowski said.
Murkowski,
the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, said
policies that increase the cost of producing energy will only drive up gasoline
prices further and increase the economic challenges facing American families
and the nation as a whole.
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