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On the recordNovember 18, 2021
I thank the gentleman for yielding. The chairman of the Rules Committee said Republicans want to blame Joe Biden for everything. I am not blaming Joe Biden for everything; the American people are. Right-track, wrong-track polling says 71 percent of our fellow citizens think our country is on the wrong track. I am not blaming Joe Biden; they are, the people we represent. Approval rating is 38 percent, and the Vice President's approval is 28 percent. In the history of polling for Vice President and President, I don't know if I have ever seen anything that low. It is the American people who are fed up with what they see. The gentleman who chairs the Rules Committee said: What are they for? I will tell you what we are for. I will tell you what Republicans are for. I will tell you what the American people are for. We are actually for a secure border. Imagine that. We are for lower prices. We actually would like to have real wages be going up like they were under President Trump. We would like to have a secure border like we had under President Trump. We would actually like less crime in our urban areas like we had under President Trump. We would like to be energy independent like we were just 10 months ago. We would kind of like not to have the spectacle of the President of the United States begging OPEC to increase production at the same time your policies in this bill would discourage American companies from increasing production.…
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Jim Jordan
Republican · Ohio
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Nov 18, 2021

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