Political Quotes

“I come to the floor to talk about something that is impacting consumers every day, and that is our supply chain shortage as it relates to semiconductors, or abbreviated here as ``chips.'' I can't emphasize how important this issue is to Americans. It is affecting Americans who can't buy a used car. There is a 41-percent increase over what they would have normally been able to buy. It is really impacting Americans. Why? Because Americans can't get new cars. They can't get new cars because they don't have semiconductors. It is impacting our transportation sector that ships goods. It is affecting our ability on national security. It is affecting our communication systems. I know that a year ago, we passed this legislation out of the Senate. I am pretty sure that if we would have passed the funding a year ago out of the U.S. Senate and it would have been adopted and gone to the President's desk, we would be in a different supply chain issue today. I want to ask my colleagues to move quickly at going to conference on this legislation. Reporting indicates that semiconductor shortages may have cost the United States a full percent of economic input-output in 2021. Other reports highlight the fact that the semiconductor shortage is driving inflation. Yet our colleagues don't want to help get us to conference. When you don't have chips, you don't have trucks to drive.…”