众议员克雷格·戈德曼表示，能源成本也推高了美国民众日常生活中的物价
作者：伊丽莎白·埃尔金德（Elizabeth Elkind）
福克斯新闻（Fox News）
发布时间：2026年2月18日 美国东部时间上午10:00
福克斯独家首发：众议院共和党人提出的一项新法案，将通过全面废除大量民主党前任政府制定的法规，来巩固唐纳德·特朗普总统的能源议程。
来自得克萨斯州的共和党众议员克雷格·戈德曼（Rep. Craig Goldman, R-Texas）正在推动一项法案，该法案将为所有未来与能源相关的法规设置五年的日落条款窗口（sunset window），同时要求对许多现行法规进行修订，在审查过程中设定一年的有效期。
这一举措是在特朗普颁布了一项类似的行政命令之后采取的，该行政命令旨在针对拜登在其任期第一年实施的能源繁文缛节。
但如果戈德曼的法案成为法律，它将极大地削弱未来民主党政府实施像拜登那样的新长期能源政策的能力，而共和党人大多认为这些政策繁琐且不必要。
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他在接受福克斯新闻数字版采访时表示，这些法规加剧了美国民众日常生活中不断上涨的成本。
戈德曼在谈到他的立法时说：“我们正在审视能源成本从始至终的每一个环节，以及它如何影响每一个美国纳税人。”
“人们只需回顾一年半前某些商品的价格就会发现，那时候的价格完全是由拜登政府颁布的法规造成的，而这正是我们希望削减和编订成法的内容。”
这位得克萨斯州共和党人指出，能源成本的增加，包括加油站的油价上涨，已经渗透到美国民众日常生活的方方面面。
“我父亲和我曾拥有一家葡萄酒和食品店，是的，当油价上涨时，那个从伊利诺伊州芝加哥满载奶酪的卡车司机，因为油价大幅上涨，向我们额外收取了2000美元的运费。而我们无法承担这笔费用，所以奶酪的价格也随之上涨了。”他举例说。
“每一个美国纳税人接触到的所有东西——无论他们是否意识到——当能源价格高企时，他们的生活成本也会相应攀升。”
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（得克萨斯州众议员克雷格·戈德曼于2025年6月4日在华盛顿参加众议院共和党会议后离开。汤姆·威廉姆斯/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images）
他的法案将主要针对能源部和内政部根据主要能源和土地法律颁布的法规。
本届国会期间，众议院已经在两党支持下，多次投票推翻拜登时代的多项监管政策。
上个月，11名民主党议员与共和党人一起投票推翻了拜登政府关于淋浴喷头水压的规定。
去年年初，众议院和参议院均通过决议推翻拜登政府针对热水器的规定，其中众议院有6名民主党议员与共和党人共同支持这一措施。
随着11月2026年中期选举临近，两党都将能源成本上涨作为相互竞争的争论点。
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但戈德曼认为，由于汽油等部分商品价格今年有所下降，民主党在谈论“可负担性”时已显得底气不足。
“我们进行了反击，让人们意识到，‘等等，让我们谈谈可负担性。让我们看看一年零两个月前的物价水平，那时候唐纳德·特朗普尚未上任，共和党人也还没能推动通过特朗普总统签署的良好法案。’我觉得很有意思的是，突然之间‘可负担性’这个热门词汇不再被频繁提及了。”
戈德曼法案的共同提案人包括共和党研究委员会主席奥古斯特·普弗卢格（August Pfluger, R-Texas）、贝丝·范杜因（Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas）、兰迪·韦伯（Randy Weber, R-Texas）、丹·克伦肖（Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas）、安娜·保利娜·卢娜（Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla.）、帕特·哈里根（Pat Harrigan, R-N.C.）和巴里·摩尔（Barry Moore, R-Ala.）。
参议院方面的类似法案由来自爱达荷州的共和党参议员吉姆·里施（Jim Risch, R-Idaho）提出。
伊丽莎白·埃尔金德是福克斯新闻数字版的政治记者，负责报道众议院事务。她此前曾在《每日邮报》和哥伦比亚广播公司新闻担任数字编辑。
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House GOP moves to cement Trump energy agenda by taking sledgehammer to Biden-era regulations
Rep Craig Goldman argues that energy costs also contribute to rising prices across Americans’ daily lives
By Elizabeth Elkind
Fox News
Published February 18, 2026 10:00am EST
FIRST ON FOX:A newly proposed bill by House Republicans would cement President Donald Trump’s energy agenda by taking a sledgehammer to a vast array of his Democrat predecessor’s regulations.
Rep. Craig Goldman, R-Texas, is introducing legislation that would give all future energy-related regulations a five-year sunset window, while requiring many existing rules to be amended with a one-year expiry pending a review process.
It comes after Trump levied a similar executive order that would target energy red tape imposed by former President Joe Biden during his first year in office.
But if Goldman’s bill becomes law, it would significantly hamstring the ability of future Democratic administrations to impose new long-term energy policies like Biden’s, many of which Republicans have panned as burdensome and unnecessary.
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He argued to Fox News Digital that those regulations were compounding the rising costs Americans have seen in their daily lives.
“It is going through and looking at every single cost, basically from start to finish, of energy costs, and how it affects every single American taxpayer,” Goldman said of his legislation.
“All anyone has to do is look at where they were a year and a half ago with costs of certain things. It was all based on regulations passed by the Biden administration, and that’s exactly what we hope to cut and codify.”
The Texas Republican pointed out that increased energy costs, including prices at the gas pump, bled into other facts of Americans’ daily lives.
“My dad and I owned a wine and food store and, yeah, when gas prices went up, the guy who drove the 18-wheeler full of cheese from Chicago, Illinois, charged us an extra $2,000 for that delivery because his gas prices were up tremendously. And so we couldn’t afford to eat that cost, so the cheese prices went up,” he said as an example.
“Everything that every single American taxpayer touches — whether they know it or not, when energy prices are high, their cost of living is in turn going to be high.”
Rep. Craig Goldman, R-Texas, leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, June 4, 2025.(Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call, Inc. via Getty Images)
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His legislation would primarily target regulations issued under major energy and land laws overseen by the Department of Energy and Department of the Interior.
The House has already voted to roll back a number of Biden-era regulatory policies so far this term and with bipartisan support.
Last month, 11 Democrats voted with Republicans to overturn Biden administration regulations on showerhead pressure.
Both the House and Senate passed resolutions early last year to overturn Biden-era regulations targeting water heaters, with six Democrats joining Republicans in the House on that measure.
Rising energy costs have been targeted by both parties as they make competing arguments ahead of the November 2026 midterms.
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But Goldman is arguing that Democrats have less of a footing to talk about affordability with select goods like gas seeing a decrease in prices this year.
“We pushed back, and we made people realize, ‘No, wait a minute. Let’s talk about affordability. Let’s talk about where the cost of things were just over a year and two months ago, before Donald Trump came into office and before Republicans could push through good legislation that President Trump signed,” Goldman said. “I kind of find it quite interesting that all of a sudden the buzzword affordability isn’t much talked about anymore.”
Co-sponsors of Goldman’s bill include Republican Study Committee Chairman August Pfluger, R-Texas, and Reps. Beth Van Duyne, R-Texas, Randy Weber, R-Texas, Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., Pat Harrigan, R-N.C., and Barry Moore, R-Ala.
A Senate counterpart was introduced by Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho.
Elizabeth Elkind is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital leading coverage of the House of Representatives. Previous digital bylines seen at Daily Mail and CBS News.
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