Political Quotes

“I come to the floor today to talk about the rising costs of American energy, and this morning we found out that inflation continues to burn very hot. Prices continue to go up and up and up. Last month, they actually went up faster than even any of the economists had predicted. Since Joe Biden took office, the prices have risen now by more than 13 percent across America. That is what families are facing. And prices have been rising faster than wages for the last 17 months. So people are feeling the heat and falling further and further behind. Today, gas prices are still nearly a dollar and a half a gallon higher than they were the day Joe Biden took office, but Democrats are patting themselves on the back because gas prices have come down from the stratospheric $5 a gallon during the peak this summer. Well, gas is still over $4 a gallon in lots of States, including Nevada and Washington State, and, of course, at $5 a gallon, very few people can afford to drive. So it is no surprise the prices fell as demand plummeted. But yet many of the Democrats are at the White House this afternoon, apparently in the thousands, to celebrate a law that just got passed here. These price hikes, these increases in costs, this is nothing to celebrate. And so in 15 minutes, at the White House, Joe Biden is going to lead a celebration--a party--for a bill that passed along party lines. We have a crisis of food, a crisis of energy, a crisis of rent.…”