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House approves bill to take aim at gasoline ‘price gouging’

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, center, joined from left by Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith, R-Miss., Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., and Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., holds a news conference to charge that President Joe Biden and Democrats are to blame for the current high prices for gasoline, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, May 18, 2022. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) High gas prices are seen in front of a medical billboard Wednesday, May 11, 2022, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash) Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., speaks during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2023 for the Department of Energy, Thursday, May 5, 2022, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib) FILE - Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, left, speaks during a briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, May 16, 2022. A pair of dams on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota will get safety repairs with part of $29 million in funding from the federal infrastructure deal, the Department of the Interior announced Wednesday, May 18.(AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File) FILE - Gas prices are displayed at a BP gas station in Elgin, Ill., on March 19, 2022. Just as Americans gear up for summer road trips, the price of oil remains stubbornly high, pushing prices at the gas pump to painful heights. AAA said Tuesday, May 10, 2022, drivers are paying $4.37 for a gallon of regular gasoline. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh, File) FILE - An oil drilling rig is pictured at sunset, Monday, March 7, 2022, in El Reno, Okla. A federal appeals court in New Orleans hears arguments Tuesday, May 10, 2022, about whether President Joe Biden legally suspended new oil and gas lease sales because of climate change worries. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
House approves bill to take aim at gasoline ‘price gouging’