[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 46 (Tuesday, March 15, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H3717]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE INFLATION CRISIS

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Joyce) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Madam Speaker, we are facing multiple 
crises in our country. Inflation is surging, gasoline prices are 
skyrocketing, and the Biden administration is still refusing to act.
  In Adams County, Pennsylvania, a gallon of gas costs $4.43. That is 
$1.40 more than it did just 1 year ago.
  Rural Americans should not be forced to pay the price for President 
Biden's failure to drill American oil, a failure that has led to the 
highest gas prices in our Nation's history.
  In a recent survey that I conducted in my weekly newsletter, over 
3,000 of my constituents responded, and 96 percent of them reported 
that the rising cost of goods has affected their individual budgets.
  It is time for President Biden to take responsibility for what his 
reckless spending has done to our country. Because of this reckless 
spending, Americans are forced to make difficult choices about what 
they can afford to buy, about what medications they can afford, and 
about which bills they are able to pay each month.
  It is time for President Biden to care more about the families in 
Pennsylvania, more about the families in America, than he does about 
the Green New Deal. It is time to drill American oil. It is time to 
utilize and expand Pennsylvania's wonderful energy resources. It is 
time to use the resources that are under the feet of my constituents: 
the coal, the natural gas, and the Marcellus shale.
  Biden welcomed a pipeline to Putin, and yet he shut down the Keystone 
XL pipeline. It is time to return to American energy independence and 
American energy dominance. It is time to get to work for the American 
people.

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