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On the recordMarch 1, 2023
The gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Raskin), my friend, talks about increased bureaucracy, the increased bureaucracy of informing the American people. My goodness. My goodness. I have never heard that from my friends on the other side of the aisle, ``increased bureaucracy.'' I mean, all they do around here is infuse more government into our lives with every single thing they do. The gentleman talks about the medical situation and price-fixing. He doesn't call it price-fixing, but that is what it is. It is price- fixing. More bureaucracy taking more drugs off the market, more lifesaving research off the market, but they are good with that. They talk about 12 million new jobs, but don't talk about the fact that in one of the reporting periods a million jobs were created but then it was only months later we find out that only 10,000 were created. Oh, and that first report? Right before the election. Interesting how that happened. He doesn't want to talk about that or the workforce participation rate. He talks about lowering inflation. You can talk about that all you want to but people that pay for things don't experience it. So you can say it is true, but the reality is that it is not true. All these years he has been saying it is unnecessary to do this. My goodness. My good friend from Maryland is a member of the legislature.…
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Scott Perry
Republican · Pennsylvania
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Mar 1, 2023

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