Photo by: Susan Walsh In this file photo, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., speaks during a Senate Budget Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. 25, 2021. Mr. Whitehouse and Rep. Ro Khanna, California Democrat, introduced legislation on March 11, 2022, titled The Big Oil Windfall Profits Act which would place a tax on each barrel of oil equal to 50% of the difference between current prices and the pre-pandemic 2015-19 average. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool) **FILE**