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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

President Biden's energy crisis is the Christmas gift that nobody asked for. The national average for a gallon of gas reached $3.39 as of last Friday, the most Americans have paid at the pump since the Obama-Biden administration. Home…

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Pat McHenry
@patmchenry· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

It is the Administration's agenda that is driving up the cost of things, and is making the American people worse off, not better off.

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Pat McHenry
@patmchenry· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

It is the multiple trillions of dollars that this Congress and this Administration is spending that is putting jet fuel on the fires of this economy.

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Pat McHenry
@patmchenry· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

The economic question that I hear from economists on the left now, and your former San Francisco Fed even acknowledges, is that February stimulus contributed to the inflation we are now experiencing.

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Pat McHenry
@patmchenry· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

I am just asking you--you are a noted economist, who was the Chair of the Federal Reserve.

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Pat McHenry
@patmchenry· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

When a Democrat says, 'improve inflation,' it means enhance or raise inflation, just to be clear, okay?

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Pat McHenry
@patmchenry· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

More than 90 percent of my constituents reported that rising prices were impacting their household budgets. Inflation is destroying Americans' ability to save for retirement, buy a home, or build wealth. This isn't a tax on the rich; it is…

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Pat McHenry
@patmchenry· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

I am glad to see that President Biden recognizes what I have said all along, that you have earned and deserve another term leading the Federal Reserve.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

I don't think we have a real sense of the scope of the fraud and abuse and the illegal activity.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

I'd do away with this program. I'm like Mr. Good, I would do completely away with it, and I'll do everything in my power to do so.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

So the taxpayers are paying for whatever they are it seems to me, so we've got rampant fraud and rampant misuse of funds, and it's always the taxpayers who are paying for it.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

I'm going to be delving into this a lot more on individual basis with both of you.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

If there is any plan to try to keep this program alive, ... you would at least want the money to go where it's supposed to go.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

I frankly don't think the benefits are there for the amount of taxpayer dollars that we put into this program.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

So it seems to me there is a systemic problem here that's an abuse of taxpayer dollars all the way around.

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

How long are we going to ask taxpayers to prop up this broken agency?

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Virginia Foxx
@virginiafoxx· Republican · NC· Nov 30, 2021

AmeriCorps has failed yet another audit. After holding numerous oversight hearings on the fiscal State of AmeriCorps it's time to admit that this is a failed experiment.

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