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On the recordSeptember 22, 2021
What a mess we have here on our hands. Make no mistake, our country was facing numerous crises when we all left here for the August district work period, and now it has only gotten worse. Because of the backwards Biden policies, we have a number of crises, unprecedented crises like our country has never faced, all at one time. We have an economic crisis where jobs remain stalled and consumer prices continue to soar at their highest rate in 40 years. We have a border crisis. Everybody can see that. It is impossible to overstate what a disaster it has become. We all see these horrific videos showing over 10,000 illegal migrants being housed under a bridge in the hot Texas sun. In August alone over 208,000 illegal aliens were encountered at our border by our law enforcement, what is left of it, the Border Patrol, Customs agents. Our border security is overwhelmed, and they can't do the job that they are hired to do. We have a national security crisis. On Friday, of course, tragically we learned that President Biden's disastrous Afghanistan exit was topped off by a drone strike that killed 10 civilians, including 7 children and zero terrorists. After nearly two months of district work away from Washington, instead of coming back here early to deal with all these unprecedented crises, the Democrat leadership waited, and so now here we are. What do they have for us now? What do they have on the docket to handle all these crises?…
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana
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Sep 22, 2021

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