Energy prices are crushing us in New Jersey, just like everywhere else in this country — 77 million households now say they have to choose between basic necessities like medicine or food to pay their energy bills. Small businesses are struggling just to keep the lights on.

But instead of helping, Congress has made it much worse by trying to destroy the cheapest and easiest-to-build sources of energy, demanding we exclusively use expensive gas and coal to appease members' donors .

This is a classic case of what’s wrong with Washington, where we know what the solutions are, but we can’t have them because the highest bidders — in this case the oil and gas lobbies — are still getting rich off the broken status quo. And it’s harming our state: We just got hit with a 20% increase in elec

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