WASHINGTON, May 18 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following press release:
With gas prices skyrocketing because of President Trump's war in the Middle East, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Congressman Seth Magaziner, and Congressman Gabe Amo are calling for passage of the Big Oil Windfall Profits Tax Act to curb profiteering by oil companies and provide Rhode Islanders relief at the gas pump.
"Rhode Islanders are once again getting squeezed at the gas pump as President Trump's war in the Middle East sends gas prices soaring and money flowing to his Big Oil donors," said Whitehouse, Ranking Member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "We should send any big windfall that Big Oil is getting out of this war back to ...