[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 20, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3677]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       EMPOWERING THE FREE MARKET

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Nehls) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. NEHLS. Madam Speaker, the Consumer Price Index rose 5.4 percent 
in the last year, the highest inflation in 13 years.
  Americans are paying more for nearly everything. According to the 
Bureau of Labor Statistics, the price of milk is up 5.6 percent; the 
price of fruit is up 7.3 percent; and the price of gas is up a whopping 
45 percent.
  Americans are paying more for goods and services because of the 
Democrats' out-of-control spending. Despite the dire economic state 
Democrats' reckless spending has put us in, they are now trying to ram 
through a partisan $3.5 trillion package that will raise taxes on the 
middle class and job creators.
  What are Democrats telling American businesses to do when they are 
going to raise taxes and impose regulations on them as they try to 
rebuild in the aftermath of a pandemic? They are telling them to take 
their business overseas.
  To bounce back from the Biden administration's dismal job reports in 
consecutive months, we need to be stimulating economic opportunity and 
growth with less taxes and less regulation. Doing so will help spur the 
creation of good-paying jobs that encourage people to get back in the 
workforce.
  What won't fix it is continuing to throw money at the economy, which 
seems to be all the Washington swamp knows how to do. The Democrats' 
liberal tax-and-spend model is failing our economy and failing the 
American people.
  We are not going to spend our way out of this mess with trillion-
dollar programs that do nothing but serve liberal special interests. We 
do it by letting the free market flourish through lower taxes, lower 
regulation, and more economic freedom.
  It worked under President Trump when he set records in unemployment, 
and it will work again if only the Federal Government would get out of 
the way and empower the people and the free market.

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