Steve Scalise: “I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the underlying legislation that we…”

“I thank my friend from Pennsylvania for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the underlying legislation that we are trying to bring to the floor which, if we defeat the previous question, would actually come up to confront a major problem facing families. If you look over the last few weeks, Mr. Speaker, this Congress has done a lot of things. It has spent a lot of money. There was a bill just 2 weeks ago to raise over $4.5 trillion in taxes and new spending, which would fuel inflation even higher. What families across America are telling us is: Why doesn't Congress work for those families who are struggling? Why doesn't Congress work to confront the challenges they are facing every single day? It seems as if this majority is tone-deaf to the real problems that are hurting families today. It is inflation, and it is the spending in Washington that is driving that inflation. And one of those leading indicators is the high price of gasoline because it is something that maybe multiple times a week families have to go fill up their car. They pay over $150 to do it, and they can't afford it. So we have a bill to actually do something about that, something we haven't seen on this floor for weeks. It is a bill to actually confront a crisis that was created by this President. Unfortunately, there are crises after crises that have been created by President Biden. One of those is an energy crisis self-created by President Biden.…”