[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 88 (Thursday, May 20, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H2634-H2635]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             CHARTING ECONOMIC CHANGES DUE TO BIDEN POLICY

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, this chart by the Republican Study 
Committee shows the difference not just a year makes but what an 
attitude to governing makes toward making a living and managing 
families' needs, even enjoying what you have earned and how you see fit 
to spend it.
  Energy independence: Stopping production and oil and gas 
infrastructure in the U.S. gives higher prices, which are eclipsing $4 
now even in my home State of California.
  Lumber: Though our California and Western forests burn millions of 
acres each year, somehow we have a lack of harvest and lumber 
shortages, thanks to strange environmental thinking prohibiting the 
forest harvest and management we need to prevent fires and keep the 
lumberyards full. I know it is not the logger or the log truck driver 
making the killing here in the quadruple pricing per board-foot.
  Home costs: They ride right up there with lumber as well, and all the 
other inputs, up 20 percent.
  Coffee: Up 50 percent. Coffee has to come from somewhere.

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  Wheat: Up big. Bread and cereal won't be any cheaper. Will the farmer 
see this windfall? Not likely.
  Corn: The same thing. Will the farmer do any better with the much 
higher cost of corn? No.
  Copper: Used in so many of our mechanical and electrical devices, it 
is going up, making it harder to wire our homes.
  The bottom line is: Everything you need is much more expensive, 
thanks to Biden policy.

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