[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 208 (Thursday, December 2, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6865]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   ECONOMIC CRISIS--RISING INFLATION

  (Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, our Thanksgiving celebration for this year is 
in the rearview mirror, but the rising inflation that drove dinner 
costs higher this year is sticking around for Christmas and will 
continue to crush household budgets into the new year.
  From the grocery store to the gas pump, Americans across the board 
are paying more for just about everything. No matter where you may fall 
on the income spectrum, none of us can escape paying more for less. 
However, lower income households and the elderly who are on fixed 
incomes will be hit hardest by the pain that inflation always inflicts.
  What is driving the skyrocketing inflation? Wasteful and increased 
Federal spending that encourages workers to remain on the sidelines, 
supply chain shortages, and transportation disruptions are to blame.
  Americans are not stupid. That is why a majority say that President 
Biden's multitrillion-dollar socialist tax-and-spend scheme will only 
make bad inflation worse, not better.

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