Bill Posey actually said...

It seems the threats to our national security never ends. They just get greater and greater.

And I have submitted a request for that information to your agencies, so I'm sorry they didn't touch base with you on it.

This increase was a result of supply restrictions that followed on the Administration's assault on the domestic energy production.

The primary call to inflation is deficit spending financed by the Federal Reserve buying the debt and increasing the money supply.