This article is part of The D.C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. If Republicans can’t get their arms around the spiraling costs of oil, they will need to get familiar with a new greeting: Hello, Speaker Hakeem Jeffries. The last 10 days have brought the single biggest disruption to oil in history. Markets have responded rationally with panic. A gallon of gas is up almost 50 cents from this point last week as the White House is giving