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</font></div><div><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: none; width: 856px; margin-bottom: 20px;"><tbody style="box-sizing: border-box; border: none;"><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 10px 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Majority Members</font></strong></h4></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><h4 style="box-sizing: border-box; line-height: 1; margin: 10px 0px; letter-spacing: 0px;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Minority Members</font></strong></h4></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://mcgovern.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Chairman Jim McGovern (D-MA)</b></font></a></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://cole.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ranking Member Tom Cole (R<b>-OK)</b></font></a></span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://torres.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Norma J. Torres (D-CA)</font></a></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://burgess.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Michael Burgess (R-<b>TX)</b></font></a></span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://perlmutter.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Ed Perlmutter (D-CO)</font></a></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://reschenthaler.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Guy Reschenthaler (R-PA)</font></a></span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; background: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://raskin.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Jamie <b>Raskin (D-MD)</b></font></a></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top; background: none;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://fischbach.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Michelle Fischbach (R-MN)</font></a></span></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://scanlon.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA)</font></a></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://morelle.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Joe Morelle (D-NY)</font></a></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://desaulnier.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Mark <b>DeSaulnier (D-CA)</b></font></a></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="https://ross.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Deborah K. Ross (D-NC)</font></a></span></p></td><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 12px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></p></td></tr><tr style="box-sizing: border-box;"><td style="box-sizing: border-box; padding: 0px; vertical-align: top;"><a href="https://neguse.house.gov/" style="box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO)</font></span></a></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>Republicans block bill to stop price gouging at the pump as gas hits new record high</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">David Badash and The New Civil Rights Movement May 17, 2022</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Take a walk through U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers‘ tweets and you’ll find complaint after complaint about the price of gas. Congresswoman McMorris Rodgers, Republican of Washington, is the ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee but opposes legislation to stop oil and gas companies from price gouging consumers.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Rep. McMorris Rodgers on Monday claimed that making it illegal for oil companies to price gouge is “socialism,” something that’s done in places like “Soviet Russia,” not in America.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">"The promise of America is free enterprise, not socialism, not government price controls,” she claimed, as she complained about the price of gas, which just hit a new record high.</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Here is the Republican from Washington just one week ago saying<b> it’s time to “get these prices under control.”</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><b>The bill would not set price caps as some Republicans suggest, rather, it would empower the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate if oil and gas companies are price gouging consumers.</b></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">Republicans on the powerful<b style=""> House Rules Committee</b></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);"> on Monday blocked the bill, H.R. 7688, the Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act. from advancing. The GOP, thanks to McMorris Rodgers, is now calling the legislation the “Socialist Energy Price Fixing Act.”</span></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">CNN’s Manu Raju reports <b>House Republican leadership Monday evening was urging its members to vote against the legislation if and when it comes to a vote on the full floor</b>, which is still possible, although questionable.</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">C-SPAN’s Craig Caplan:</div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">
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</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The right-wing newspaper The Washington Times reports Democrats “were forced to pull the proposal from consideration during a procedural vote in the House Rules Committee that would have teed up the bill for a final vote later this week.”</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he will bring the bill to a vote on the floor if it passes the House. It would require 60 votes to avoid a GOP filibuster, and therefore is not expected to pass.</span></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div>