Political Quotes

“Mr. Chairman, what I find to be one of the more remarkable things about the so-called Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 is nowhere in that bill do progressive Democrats identify any government program worth cutting, not $1 of the $80 billion appropriated to the IRS to audit middle-income Americans, not $1 of spending in Ukraine, and not $1 of the billions given to advance tree equity. This is absurd. We are spending ourselves into oblivion. We have to give relief to the American consumer, and a $6.5 billion hike in the cost of oil and gas to the consumer is real. The cost of groceries is up 30 to 40 percent. Rents are up. It is impossible for some to buy a home. We have to recognize that the Biden-Harris administration is a failure. People were better off under Donald Trump than they are under Biden-Harris. This is obvious. This isn't about pandering to oil and gas. This is about working-class Americans seeing increased prices at the fuel pump. Everything at the grocery store, everything at the big-box store, and everything at the mall is touched by oil and gas. If the price of that underlying commodity is increased, the price of everything else goes up. This is simple math. We have to get back to common sense. Quite frankly, our enemies laugh. America produces the cleanest energy in the world. If we were really serious about climate change, we would export our natural gas to Europe because ours is better and cleaner than Russia's. That is not my colleagues' objective.…”