If a policy was so effective and it worked so well and it helped so many people, that a policy like that would not need a subsidy.

Over the past 2 years, total inflation has increased by over 17 percent.

Americans are paying more for just about everything: groceries, rent, gas.

And I think we have to be stewards of the taxpayers' money, because I believe you said earlier, sir, that the government really does not produce anything, right?

Inflation today is more than 2.5 times the rate he inherited.

Were Americans better off in 2019, or are they better off now under Bidenomics?

Americans still are struggling under the weight of inflation.

I mean, I realize Bidenomics, it might be a little different, but I just wanted to make sure.

Not surprisingly, the Inflation Reduction Act has not delivered on its promises that the Democrats claimed it would.

So, facts and evidence. Crazy.

Where is this money going? I will share with you where it is not going. It is not going to the American people.

I believe the lack of transparency in third-party litigation is not only a threat to our legal system, but clearly a potential threat to our national security.

I am extremely excited to hear about that since this Committee has uncovered that the Biden family has received over $20 million from foreign nationals.

The lack of transparency in third-party litigation funding is concerning, whether it is dark money on either side.

Foreign countries, such as China and Russia, could use third-party litigation funding to fuel targeted lawsuits designed to weaken U.S. national defense companies.

Unfortunately, the government bureaucracy appears to have gotten in the way of the American hemp industry and consumer safety, the actual opposite of what they were supposed to do.

I mean, that is like cats and dogs living together.

The American people need to know what is in their products, and the FDA has the power to enforce reasonable regulations by regulating CBD as a dietary supplement or food additive.

So, it is good for business. It helps protect children. It was instituted in the 2018 Farm Bill, yet the FDA has slow-walked, maybe, not even at all, done any sort of regulation on this?

Can we talk about my question, though, and my question is, is it possible that some of these over 530,000 got-aways are smuggling fentanyl? Is it possible?

I think you would agree that China is complicit in America's drug overdose and academic problem here?

Let me be clear. Further bloating the Federal bureaucracy is not the answer.

I think we have to take a look at, if I had a funnel, at really the small end of the funnel, can we stop it before it even gets here? Can we choke it off?

In 2019, over 70,000 people died from an opioid overdose. In 2021, 106,000 Americans died from drug-related overdoses.

Do the job you were signed up to do. I mean, I am almost on the opposite. I think we should start rescinding dollars until people actually start doing the job they signed up to do, and stop with the excuses. It drives me crazy.