I will be mindful of your time whenever you have to go on, but would you agree that if you go back and say, all right, let's go look at how the America First agenda was performing a couple of years ago, that the unemployment rate in April 2018 was 3.6 percent, that today the unemployment rate is 6.1 percent, that the poverty rate in 2019 was 10\1/2\ percent, that the poverty rate today is 13.7 percent projected, that the Consumer Price Index in April 2019 was 2 percent, that today the Consumer Price Index is at 4.2 percent and skyrocketing. If you compare where we were with respect to energy a couple of years ago--and I know that my friend has a heart for energy; obviously, it is very important to his State as it is to mine in Texas--that under the Trump administration for the first time in nearly 70 years, the United States became a net energy exporter, right?
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