Bernie Moreno

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Mr. President, reserving my right to object, I just want to make it crystal clear for everybody as to what just happened. If we had passed my colleague from Ohio's bill--the one he spent an enormous amount of time writing, the bill that he spent enormous time in lobbying support for from the House of Representatives--all we had to do was not have an objection from a Democrat Senator. That bill would have become law today, and taxpayers all over America and electricity users all over this country would have seen immediate relief. We would have advanced the ball. The term ``do-nothing Congress'' exists for a reason. We absolutely accomplished that right now. We did nothing here in the Senate because of, again, Democrat obstruction. This bill would have done something. That is not nothing. So I applaud my colleague from Ohio for putting the work in and for having a massive, bipartisan win. By the way, just on policy alone in comparing the two solutions, the last thing we need is a new Federal interconnection queue to make Google pay for a transformer. My colleague from Ohio's bill would have actually required a deposit before steel is put in the ground for a new data center. The other would have required a FERC NOPR. Look that up. It is a bunch of bureaucratic nonsense. What you saw now is just, over and over again, Democrat obstruction after Democrat obstruction so they can just put up another TV ad saying that electricity prices are high so that they can win an election. Instead, the victim of all of this is the taxpayer of the United States of America, who is going to see electricity prices continue to go up, when we could have passed a law to have solved it. Instead, it is more games after more games. Like the American people, I am sick of it, and I know they are. For that reason, I object.