On the recordSeptember 14, 2022
I have no further speakers. I am prepared to close, and I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned earlier, the CPI just released yesterday shows that prices have increased 8.3 percent from August of last year. Real wages are down 2.8 percent. The cost of electricity has skyrocketed 15.8 percent. That is the most since 1981, the most since I was alive. As of August, nearly one quarter of all Americans reported forgoing basic needs like food and medicine just to be able to afford their energy bill. This number will only get worse because we are going to face even higher costs to heat our homes this winter, with natural gas prices nearing a 14-year high. Yet, Democrats want to focus their efforts on, again, I would call it, irrelevant legislation that has already passed the House. It will not provide any relief to American workers and American families. For these reasons, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on the previous question and to vote ``no'' on the rule. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
