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On the recordOctober 20, 2021
Madam Speaker, I promise I am not trying to go for the record of the most boring for half an hour, but if I make it, bless us all. Madam Speaker, over the next half hour, I am going to try to walk through--and a lot of this is just sort of the boiling frustration that we all go through around here. We are frustrated because I believe a lot of our brothers and sisters on the left mean well. They say warm, fuzzy things. They say things that actually should make you feel good. And then you actually deal with the reality of what is happening in our economy and around us. We are going to blast through a bunch of these and see if I can sort of explain our frustration as conservatives but also as Americans. So just one quick point. Do you remember all of the rhetoric from the last election from our Democrat colleagues about how they are going to actually do all of these things in regard to greenhouse gases, but we will still have a healthy economy? Well, this is the chart before President Biden took office, and you see GDP was truly growing and greenhouse gases had actually made quite a bend and change. But now, we actually also have some other little facts we are going to have to deal with. Think about this: The attacks that happened on President Trump, but in those 4 years, my understanding is use of coal actually fell 30 percent. Well, I have to congratulate the Democrats. It looks like this year's coal usage will go up 23 percent.…
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David Schweikert
Republican · Arizona

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