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On the recordSeptember 7, 2022
I come to the floor today to discuss the crisis that is hitting all Americans. It is a crisis caused by the Democrats. It is a crisis of inflation and a crisis of the recession which we are living. Right now, it looks like Democrats want to take a victory lap. I have heard the President give his speeches. He seems to want to do this because the Democrats have passed one of the largest tax-and-spend bills in the history of the country. They crammed it through Congress in just a matter of days. It was partisan. It is a liberal wish list. And for some, it seemed like it was a green-haired liberal's dream come true. The bill includes hundreds of billions of dollars for the radical climate agenda that so many of the Democrats have been talking about. They are going to double the size of the Internal Revenue Service. Audits will be up. It is going to raise taxes on the middle class by tens and tens of billions of dollars. Democrats, of course, passed this bill on a party-line vote--not a single Republican voted for it in the House or the Senate--and Joe Biden signed it into law. Ever since then, the liberals and the press have been singing Joe Biden's praises. Yet here is a recent headline that I saw from NBC News. It said: Democrats reluctant to campaign with Biden-- Reluctant to campaign with Biden. And then the headline goes on-- despite the recent winning streak. Winning streak? There is nothing winning about this.…
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John Barrasso
Republican · Wyoming
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Sep 7, 2022

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