Political Quotes

“I thank Ranking Member Cole for yielding me the time. Under the Biden-Harris administration, we are seeing crises, manufactured crises. Let's just look at a few in turn. We have a manufactured economic crisis. The inflation rate has increased by 550 percent since January of 2021. Total government spending during that time has increased over $9 trillion. This is out- of-control spending that is leading to this inflation. It is costing the average American family $6,000 a year. Let me just put that in perspective. That would be like going up to a family and saying, can you give me 1 month's paycheck? Most cannot do that. The inflation has deprived the average American family of 1 month's pay, and this CR does absolutely nothing to address inflation. It does nothing to bring the economic crisis to an end. It just doesn't stop there. Let's talk about the manufactured energy crisis. The day, literally, day 1 that Biden took office, he declared war on American energy. He shut down the Keystone Pipeline and, as a result, American families are paying higher and higher prices at the pump. We are going to face record-level energy costs going into this winter, and yet, this CR does absolutely nothing to address the energy crisis. Let's talk about crime. There is a crime wave going on all over country. Cities across the Nation are witnessing the results of the defund the police movement.…”