I can't tell you the number of projects that are stopped because truckers try to get somebody with a GDL to drive a truck.
Ralph Norman
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Ralph Warren Norman is an American politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for South Carolina's 5th congressional district, a position he has held since June 27, 2017. A member of the Republican Party, Norman has focused on various issues including fiscal responsibility and conservative governance. He has been an advocate for reducing government spending and has voiced strong support for former President Donald Trump's policies.
I am concerned about a trend I am seeing now in the Biden Administration where they just label anything that President Trump did as bad, and therefore, it must be reversed.
Since President Biden took office, the agriculture industry has fallen under severe attack. Input costs for farmers are surging.
The Biden administration's proposed revisions to the Waters of the United States, otherwise known as WOTUS, rule, will re-ignite Obama-era uncertainties, uncertainties that President Trump had resolved to benefit America's farmers.
Agribusiness in South Carolina is South Carolina's No. 1 industry. From corn and cotton to tobacco and turkey, the farming industry in South Carolina accounts for a quarter of a million jobs and almost $50 billion in direct annual economic…
I find it amazing the statement 'abortion is healthcare.' That is totally unbelievable that you are uttering abortion is healthcare.
Inflation is a 100-percent tax on every American regardless of the color of your skin.
If this committee really wanted to get to the bottom of this, high gas prices affect over 137 different subcontractors within the housing industry.
As goes housing, so goes our economy. I think most economists recognize that.
The number-one issue that is causing housing prices to go up is very simple; it is the war this Administration has put on oil and in gas.
Under the Trump Administration, homeownership for everyone was at an all-time high.
For those of you who have an ear with this Administration, beg them to let us start producing our own oil and gas.
Now, Ms. Lopez, I think I understood you to say that rent controls probably would be a good thing?
You think about housing as a basic need. It is like water, air, and food. You can't go without it.
It astounds me that everybody is blaming different ones. I haven't heard Putin's name and I haven't heard Santa Claus yet.
There are just over 5,100 single-family homes owned by private equity in South Carolina.
The blame primarily lies with the Biden Administration and congressional Democrats who poured trillions of dollars of fiscal stimulus.
We are having a severe problem with construction because of this Administration stopping the decline of gas and oil.
Excuse me. My time. Dr. Raymond, do you realize what it takes to evict somebody?
Housing is what I made a living doing. Do you all realize how many trades are affected by one thing and one thing alone: gas prices?
There is one silver bullet that could happen overnight, which is this Administration opening up the gas from the Keystone Pipeline from Canada, from Alaska, and not buying it from rogue countries that do not like us.





