MADISONVILLE, LA (March 28, 2025) – MADISONVILLE, La. – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) today penned this op-ed in The Advocate praising the joint effort between Congress and the Trump administration to unleash Louisiana’s energy production through deregulation.
Key excerpts of the op-ed are below:
“President Joe Biden spent four years trying to drag the U.S. into the dark ages with his anti-energy policies. Thanks to the wisdom of the American people, though, those days are over.
“American energy independence is back on the horizon under President Trump’s leadership. He just signed my resolution to repeal the first of many Biden-era rules that were crushing Louisiana’s energy producers. This is only the beginning of our shared effort to clean up the massive mess that the Biden administration left behind.”
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“While President Trump’s team has made some tremendous progress in scaling back these anti-energy policies, they cannot do it all on their own. If the Biden administration implemented these changes as formal rules, the Trump administration must introduce its own formal rules to reverse the initial policies. This can take months.
“Congress, however, has a tool to help the Trump administration expedite rule changes. It’s called the Congressional Review Act (CRA), and it allows lawmakers to wipe bad rules off the books.
“I’ve already started putting this tool to work for the American people. I introduced a joint resolution of disapproval under the CRA to eliminate a Bureau of Ocean Energy Management rule that required oil and gas producers in the Gulf of America to submit archaeological reports to the federal government before drilling or laying pipelines.”
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“Small and independent operations make up roughly one-third of all oil production in the Gulf, and this rule would have cost them millions of dollars. Fortunately, my colleagues in Congress agreed that this rule was bogus. Last week, President Trump signed my CRA into law and rendered that rule void.
“President Biden made a disgusting mess of America’s energy sector by sticking bad regulations on producers like gum to a park bench. Louisianians can count on us to keep scraping away at these terrible regulations until each one is repealed and America has returned to a position of energy dominance.”
Read Kennedy’s full op-ed here.
