Political Quotes

“I thank Ranking Member Luetkemeyer for the great work that he does for small businesses. Mr. Speaker, when I speak to small businesses throughout my district, they tell me that they are fraught by skyrocketing inflation, rising energy costs, workforce shortages, burdensome regulations, just regular hassles coming from the type of regulations that have been imposed and the type of tax burdens and such. The Biden administration continues, however, to push a policy agenda that is absolutely detrimental to small business--there is no question about it--creating additional headwinds such as inflation. Let's talk about inflation. The excessive and unnecessary spending enacted by Democrats in the last 14 months, exceeding $2 trillion, well over $2 trillion just in the rescue plan, almost $9 trillion over the course of the last couple of years, has obviously contributed to the record levels of inflation; up nearly 8 percent since last year, just last year alone, the highest level since 1981. We look back on that as the most historic inflation ever. Well, it is happening now, and yet, we are talking about exacerbating it with higher levels of spending. Let's talk about energy prices.…”