House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says lawmakers are considering options to address the "Putin price hike at the pump."
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Congress has cooled efforts for a federal gas tax holiday, wary that oil companies will not pass the savings along to consumers. But other ideas are under discussion.
Meanwhile, President Joe Biden is ordering the release of 1 million barrels of oil per day from the nation's strategic petroleum reserve for six months, the White House said Thursday, in a bid to control energy prices that have spiked after the United States and allies imposed steep sanctions on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine.
At a press conference Thursday, Pelosi also said ethics guidelines should be applied to U.S. Supreme Court Justices, in response to a question about whether Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should resign.
Lawmakers plan to reach out to Virginia Thomas – known as Ginni – the wife of Thomas, about her reported text messages with former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on the day of the Jan. 6 attack, according to two people familiar with the investigation who were granted anonymity to discuss the panel's private deliberations.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has not decided what their outreach to Thomas, a conservative activist, will look like and whether that will come in the form of a subpoena or a voluntary request to cooperate.