Steve Chabot: “While I appreciate the majority's focus on gun control legislation and think it is important that this Committee Act in…”

Now, may not be the time, despite what the Biden Administration and any of my colleagues believe, to release drug traffickers and dealers back into our communities and neighborhoods.

I have no further speakers and would be willing to close at this time unless the gentleman has additional speakers. I reserve the balance of my time.

I urge all colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support the bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

As hard-working families continue to struggle to make ends meet in the face of soaring inflation, now a staggering 9.1 percent, the highest in 41 years, we are holding yet another hearing designed to divide the American people and distract…