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On the recordMarch 16, 2022
We have another crisis, yet another crisis, created by the policy choices of this White House. The national average price for a gallon of gas reached $4.32 on Sunday; and, yes, that is the highest price in U.S. history. Last Thursday, we also learned that U.S. inflation soared 7.9 percent over the past 12 months. That is the largest spike in consumer prices in 40 years. Now, the Washington Democrats' blame game is in full swing. Just to get this straight, at first, according to Democrats, they said inflation ``wasn't happening.'' Then inflation was ``merely transitory,'' they tried to convince us. Then inflation somehow only hurt rich folks; that was the only line of reasoning. But Washington Democrats' latest fiction might be their greatest yet: That the past year of steady, unrelenting price increases for gas and consumer goods is actually Vladimir Putin's fault. Yes, that is right, Madam Speaker, Vladimir Putin. He didn't kill the Keystone pipeline. Joe Biden did. Vladimir Putin didn't ban drilling for oil on Federal lands. Joe Biden did that. Vladimir Putin didn't pass trillions upon trillions in unnecessary government spending in a single year. Joe Biden and the Washington Democrats did that. Madam Speaker, what is so hard about just being honest with the American people? President Biden should accept responsibility for the past year of rising prices and pledge to correct course. He had better, or we are in for more and more pain.…
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana
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Mar 16, 2022

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