[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 48 (Thursday, March 17, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H3788]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         FOCUS ON AMERICA FIRST

  (Mrs. GREENE of Georgia asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mrs. GREENE of Georgia. Madam Speaker, I rise today to address the 
House to discuss why we need to focus on our country first. We are 
seeing rapidly rising inflation. It is completely out of control.
  While here in Congress and in the Washington bubble, which is 
disconnected with the rest of America, all we are hearing is potential 
war with Russia over the country of Ukraine. Ukraine is not a NATO 
member ally, and President Biden had told them that we would be only 
standing with our NATO member allies.
  All we are hearing on the news is Ukraine. Yet, here in America, what 
real Americans care about are gas prices they can't afford, inflation 
that goes up and up to where grocery bills are unaffordable, and they 
are very concerned about our out-of-control, open border.
  Crime is out of control, yet Washington is completely disconnected 
and seems to care more about sending our sons and daughters to a 
potential war where they do not belong.
  I urge my colleagues here in Congress, instead of working on a future 
COVID bill, spending billions of dollars on COVID that doesn't exist, 
let's care about our border and let's care about working to have energy 
independence to lower gas prices for Americans.

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