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On the recordOctober 20, 2021
Madam Speaker, during my time this afternoon, my colleagues and I will address the burning issues that are on the hearts and minds of all our constituents back home--really, all Americans--and that is the numerous self-inflicted crises of the Biden administration and the House Democrats' increasingly radical leftwing legislative agenda. Madam Speaker, Democrats may narrowly control the House, the Senate, and the White House, but over the past several weeks, it has become abundantly clear that they just cannot govern. America is in crisis. Everybody knows that, and everybody can feel it in so many areas. {time} 1630 Today, the White House spends its days doing damage control on all these multiple crises of their own making. Just think of what we are facing right now. We have an economic crisis where jobs remain unfilled, prices for basic goods continue to rise, and the shelves sit empty. We have got an energy crisis that has led to the highest gasoline crisis since 2007, and we know the projections for warming our homes in the winter are off the charts. We have multiple foreign policy crises, and we have on the southern border humanitarian, national security, and public health crises like we have never seen before. These really are existential kinds of threats to the country. I know our colleagues like to throw that word around, but it really does apply here. And while all Presidents confront crises beyond their control, that is not what is happening here.…
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

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