Political Quotes

“I thank Vice Chairman Johnson for hosting this Special Order tonight and for allowing us to highlight the various crises that are affecting our Nation today. Last week, inflation hit a whopping 8.6 percent, the highest since 1981, and gas prices have soared to $5 a gallon nationwide for the first time in history. In fact, just last week, for the first time in my life, I paid more than $100 just to fill up the gas tank of my pickup truck. As the good Speaker knows, if our own home State had not temporarily suspended the gas tax in Georgia, it would have been $110 to fill up my pickup truck. Consumer confidence has plunged to a record low, and I don't blame them. Gas, groceries, utilities, common goods, they are all going up. Month after month, the sticker shock continues to burden American workers and families, with no end in sight. Yet President Biden comically claims he is, and I quote, changing people's lives. Well, I think he really is, but it is not changing for the better. Dare I say the President's policies are actually ruining people's lives, destroying the middle class, and dismantling our economy. Our Nation is in full buyer's remorse. The American people are increasingly fearful of a recession. What are the Democrats here in Congress doing about it right now?…”