Andy Biggs: “For the last while I have heard my colleagues across the aisle, they were talking about costs, that Republicans want to…”

“For the last while I have heard my colleagues across the aisle, they were talking about costs, that Republicans want to cut costs, and that we always talk about costs. Here is my question: What could they do? They are the ones who fostered this massive inflation on us that is imposing terrible, terrible costs on the American people. The first thing they could do is they could unleash American energy. When you unleash American energy, you reduce the price of the fuels that are necessary for the farmers to produce our food. You reduce the cost of the transports to bring that food to market, and you make our cost structure go down. That is not necessarily inflation, because the other thing you have to do to bring inflation under control is to bring Federal spending under control. Mr. Chairman, I urge the adoption of my amendment, and I yield back the balance of my time.”