[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 208 (Thursday, December 2, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6895]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      TASKS TO DO OVER THE RECESS

  (Mr. GROTHMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, I think after next week we are going to 
spend about 3 weeks back in the district. It would be nice if people 
would go down to the southern border, as I did, and look at the path 
into Yuma, Texas, in which all the photo IDs are being thrown aside by 
the people who want to forget their past and start a new life in 
America.
  I also hope when people go back home, they spend some time with the 
farmers and with the manufacturers that make our country run. They will 
find that the cost of metals used in manufacturing--and I have a big 
manufacturing district--are sometimes going up five or six times. Not 5 
or 6 percent, five or six times.
  They will find that mucking around with the free market of trucking 
in California has resulted in huge shortages of various different 
things that we need, including chemicals needed for agriculture, for 
things like planting soybeans and corn. Some farmers are afraid that 
sometime in the next year we are going to have a food shortage.
  They will find out that the goal of taking away fossil fuels is going 
to result in significant increases in heating oil, which is 
particularly a problem in northern Wisconsin.

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