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On the recordMarch 6, 2024
I thank the gentleman from Utah, Vice Chairman Moore, for yielding and for claiming this time this evening to discuss these important issues facing our Nation. Mr. Speaker, tomorrow, the President of the United States will appear in this Chamber to deliver his annual State of the Union Address and, hopefully, his last. I say this because since the President has taken office, prices have risen by 17.9 percent, according to the Consumer Price Index. If you ask the folks I represent in Tennessee, they have gone up far more than that. Compared to just 3 years ago, Americans are spending an extra $1,019 a month and real wages are down by more than 2 percent thanks to the Biden administration's economic policies. I believe the President calls it Bidenomics. Since taking the majority, House Republicans have fought tirelessly to rein in the Biden administration's reckless spending that has caused record-high inflation, the highest inflation since I was just a junior in high school back in the early 1980s.…
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John Rose
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