Andy Barr: “Let me respond to my friend from Maryland on some of the specific points that he made in rebuttal to my opposition to…”

“Let me respond to my friend from Maryland on some of the specific points that he made in rebuttal to my opposition to the previous question. The gentleman says that we don't want to talk about the underlying bills. What Republicans want to talk about is what the American people are worried about, which is rising prices. What we are focused on is opposing a previous question so that we could actually go and consider legislation that would actually help improve the record inflation, 40- year-high inflation that Americans are suffering with. What we are talking about is how we are going to lower the pain at the pump and lower the cost of heating your home, which is at a 15-year high in America right now. That is what Republicans want to talk about; what the American people actually care about right now. The gentleman says that, Oh, unemployment is down. Let me tell you the statistic that matters. It is the fact that we have 12 million unfilled jobs in America because the Democrats' spending spree has paid Americans to not go to work, because employers in my district and every district around the country can't find labor. The supply-demand mismatch that has produced this inflation crisis is the result of fiscal policy errors. It is the result of a war on American energy constraining the supply of energy. It is because of excessive spending that has discouraged people to return to the labor force.…”