[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 129 (Thursday, July 22, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3807]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          INCREASING INFLATION

  (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, I am pleased to see President Biden has 
acknowledged that we are having a lot of inflation right now in this 
country affecting prices for everybody. He even went so far as to tell 
some restaurant owners that you are going to be in a bind for a while 
because it is going to still be hard to get workers.
  When people are paid not to show up because of overgenerous benefits, 
all our small businesses will continue to be in a bind. When you pay 
people not to work, you get inflation. So for a few maybe getting a 
wage increase because the restaurants are in a bind, everybody receives 
higher prices. Prices are up, we know, on food, on fuel, lumber, many 
things. This is what happens when the government spends too much, puts 
too much money into the economy all based on debt.
  So what are we going to do about that? Are we going to set a course 
here to put people back in business, or do we want to have, like we saw 
just this last month, another 5.4 percent of inflation, which is really 
a tax on every American.

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