Lawmakers call for 100-year-old law that makes US gas shipping more expensive to be waived
March 09, 2022 at 21:35 PM EST
After Biden banned Russian oil imports this week amid Putin's invasion of Ukraine, lawmakers are calling for the president to waive the Jones Act, a century-old law that critics deride as protectionist because it requires all oil and cargo shipped between U.S. ports to be on American built vessels with an American crew.