Tracey Mann: “I thank the gentleman, my good friend from West Texas, Red Raider, for yielding me time. I would say if K-State can beat…”

“I thank the gentleman, my good friend from West Texas, Red Raider, for yielding me time. I would say if K-State can beat OU 3 of the last 4 years, certainly we can make massive progress on this debt that we have racked up. Nothing is impossible. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the excessive government funding at a time when inflation is skyrocketing, the supply chain is still struggling to recover, and farmers are going out of business. I look forward to the month of August every year because it gives me an extended period of time back home to visit with folks in my district and hear about their needs. This year, however, on August 12, Speaker Pelosi called the House back into session to vote on a $700 billion tax-and-spend plan chock full of Green New Deal priorities. This so- called Inflation Reduction Act will do nothing to slow down inflation; it will only make it worse. The bill contains countless reckless spending provisions such as: $80 billion to hire 87,000 IRS agents, increasing audits on the middle class and small businesses; spending more than $250 billion on Green New Deal spending and a brand new $27 billion climate slush fund at the EPA; $12 billion in new taxes on oil and gas producers, expanding the senseless war on producers of fossil fuels; $128 billion spent to expand Obamacare subsidies.…”