[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 13 (Thursday, January 20, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H255-H256]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       A LOT CAN HAPPEN IN A YEAR

  (Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Mrs. MILLER-MEEKS. Mr. Speaker, a lot can happen in a year: a woman 
can deliver a newborn; a child can learn to walk; and a small virus 
leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, can go around the globe and cause a 
global pandemic.
  While the first two are joyous, the latter, and the 1-year 
anniversary of the Biden administration, is nothing to celebrate. We 
have the highest inflation in 40 years, and you don't need a graph to 
show that. We see it each day when we go to fill up our tank or go to 
the grocery store.
  We have the end of American energy independence and a plea to OPEC to 
increase petroleum production; record-high numbers of illegal border 
crossings; almost double legal immigration, with no COVID-19 testing; 
record-high illegal drug crossings, especially synthetic fentanyl, with 
record-high overdoses, especially in our young population, 18 to 45; 
record-high homicides and crime in blue States; a disastrous withdrawal 
from Afghanistan, Saigon 2.0, with a loss of billions in equipment and 
the lives of 13 of our servicemen and -women.
  The disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan has led to increased 
instability with Russia and China.
  We have a vaccine mandate that ignores science, which shows that both 
the delta virus can transmit, even if vaccinated and boosted, and 
omicron wanes within 1 month.
  My advice to this administration: End the vaccine mandate; stop what 
you are doing; and go on vacation.

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