Jason Smith

Now Democrats are claiming a $5 trillion spending bill will fix inflation.

Inflation rose faster in Joe Biden's first year in office than President Trump's entire first term.

We should not allow Congress to exempt itself from our budget laws and hand over more responsibility to unelected bureaucrats.

They are eager to cite the S&P downgrade of U.S. credit that occurred at the time of the 2011 debt limit debate, claiming that downgrade was a consequence of the debate and discussions that occurred.

The real reason we are here is because Democrats want to get rid of any obstacles standing in the way of their radical agenda.

Democrats first denied inflation existed.

Before proceeding further, my fellow Republicans on this Committee and I, we sent you a letter over two months ago calling for an oversight hearing on the $2 trillion of so called COVID-19 relief.

I thank the ranking member from Illinois for yielding. Mr. Speaker, before we vote on new legislation, it is very important that we have an honest look at the price tag. As Republican leader of the House Budget Committee, it is my…

The official congressional scorekeepers said on Friday that the build back broke bill that passed out of here a couple weeks ago did not cost $1.5 trillion, did not cost $2 trillion, but cost $5 trillion. But this administration will say…

If we defeat the previous question, we will consider an amendment to the rule to replace the socialist $5 trillion tax-and-spend reconciliation instructions from the fiscal year 2022 budget with a new call for committees to draft…

This includes those cuts Democrats have directly caused with their reckless spending this year. Since the beginning of this Congress, House Democrats have passed $7 trillion--$7 trillion--in new spending. We have an inflation crisis, a…

What a mess. Truly, what a mess. Just about 9 months ago, I stood on this floor when we were debating the Biden bailout bill, and I warned the gentleman from Nevada how much the seniors in his State were going to lose in Medicare cuts. I…

I include in the Record a document from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget that shows the true cost of the bill is over $4 trillion. [From the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Nov. 5, 2021] House Build Back Better…

I hear all the time in this Chamber people say it is for the children or it is for the kids. What hogwash from the other side to say that this bill helps the children with the child tax credit. Your child tax credit is for 1 year, but your…

As the gentlewoman from California said, there is $150 billion in this program for housing assistance. What is unfortunate, which she didn't share, is that it also allows felons of domestic violence to get those grants, which is…

I am happy to yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Colorado (Mrs. Boebert). She is someone who is a warrior, a fighter for conservatism and, apparently, even the Budget chairman is threatened by her.

I would like to read a quote from the Democrat Congressman from Maine, talking about the huge tax break for the millionaires. He says: ``The fact that more people and organizations on the Democratic side aren't up in arms about this is…

I appreciate the gentlewoman from Illinois, and I remind her that government spending is already helping fuel an inflation fire that is on pace to raise prices at the fastest rate in 40 years. In her home State of Illinois, food prices…

I appreciate the comments of the gentleman from New York, but I would just like to point out, in his home State, a family of four with two children under six, in just over a year, will face more than a $3,200 tax increase. But yet, a…

As the gentlewoman from Texas says, this helps a lot of people, especially if you are a millionaire. That is why it is the second largest provision in this bill. It is tax breaks for millionaires. In fact, Senator Tester from Montana is…

Only in this Chamber will you hear people say that if you spend trillions more dollars it will only make inflation go down. The American people aren't that stupid. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the fine gentleman from New York (Mr…

I hope that the five Members that are on this letter to the Speaker will follow through with the same commitment that they allowed on November 2, and to make sure that the American people get a valid, transparent score so that they know…

We have seen a circus here for the last 7 hours. We saw history: The longest vote held in this body in modern history, a motion to adjourn, just so some backroom agreement could be made. This point of order, the whole purpose of it, is to…

I raise a point of order against consideration of the resolution because the resolution waives all points of order against consideration of H.R. 5376. The resolution is therefore in violation of section 426 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 215, nays 212, not voting 7, as…