[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 187 (Monday, October 25, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H5838]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DESERVE BETTER

  (Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. MURPHY of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, I rise today on an urgent 
matter confronting our country.
  The American people are experiencing the worst series of self-
inflicted crises in a generation.
  Inflation is at a 40-year high. Gas is up 42 percent. Utilities are 
up 20 percent.
  Either President Biden doesn't care or is being insulated from 
reality.
  We saw the worst jobs report of the Presidency this last month. Self-
induced labor shortages are plaguing businesses. Shelves are bare. 
Container ships are stacking up.
  We have the worst Biden-created border crisis in 30 years, yet the 
President has time to go to Delaware every weekend but not the border?
  Hundreds of Americans are still in Afghanistan, meanwhile President 
Biden and Democrats are trying to ram through trillions in new tax 
hikes.
  So what is the administration working on? What are their priorities? 
A national gender strategy. Are you kidding me? This administration 
cares more about which pronoun you use than countering the Chinese 
threat or the threat at our southern border.
  Mr. Speaker, the American people deserve better than this. My 
constituents deserve better than this. Our Nation deserves better than 
this.

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