I would commend to the committee Secretary Yellen's statement, where she rejects the idea that corporate greed is to blame for inflation, and I concur.
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The lesson for the Fed is clear: It needs to focus on doing a limited number of jobs well and not get distracted by those who want it to be all things to all people.
As we face the worst inflation the country has seen in 4 decades, I am encouraged to have Mr. Powell leading our Central Bank, and I am hopeful that the Fed will rise to the occasion.
I hope that the skyrocketing inflation unleashed under the Biden Administration puts an end to these discussions.
Chair Powell, I hope you are hammering this message home with the Fed, as ordinary Americans see their paychecks eaten away under Democrat mismanagement of our economy.
I am confident that Chair Powell is taking this emergency seriously, and as I have said many times before, I think he is the right man for the job, and he is.
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It is the Democrats' trillions in wasteful spending that resulted in higher grocery bills and soaring gas prices.
A year ago, President Biden tried to buy support by signing into law a $2-trillion stimulus bill.
Supporting a robust patent filing and litigation system is paramount to ensuring American innovation.
We would never fail to make available--and it is not beyond the resources of any State in this Union--public alerting systems and to consider such issues as whether or not we wish to activate vigilantes who might respond to such an alert…
Do you believe that this Committee's investigation is a good use of taxpayer funds?
What about the crisis at the southern border? Are we doing anything to address the massive humanitarian and national security catastrophe? No.
Are we examining how the FDA and Biden administration failed to address the baby formula shortage? No.
Approximately 72 percent of Americans think the United States is on the wrong track.
This administration is doing all it can to annihilate America. It's like Nero fiddling while the country burns.
Nobody has worked harder on this issue, I think, on the Hill than I have.