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“Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend, the ranking member on the House Financial Services Committee, Mr. McHenry, for his leadership. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit. It addresses the core flaw that House Republicans believe presides today. We hear the voices of those 80 percent of Americans who say that $5,000 extra coming out of our pockets is what is hurting the working families, Black, White, and Brown, in my home State of Arkansas. We know inflation is the top issue facing this House and facing our families that we represent. That is why if we were to adopt my motion to recommit, we would instruct the Committee on Financial Services to adopt my amendment to H.R. 2543. This amendment, Mr. Speaker, is straightforward. It would simply focus the Federal Reserve, as Representative Byron Donalds so eloquently outlined, on a single mandate: price stability. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to include the text of my amendment in the Record immediately prior to the vote on the motion to recommit. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Arkansas? There was no objection. Mr. McHENRY. Mr. Speaker, I urge a ``no'' vote, and I yield back the balance of my time.”