[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 99 (Thursday, June 9, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H5432]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    PRIME-TIME TELEVISION SOAP OPERA

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, tonight starts the latest development in 
this political circus otherwise known as the Select Committee to 
Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. In 
prime time.
  Instead of working to combat issues facing Americans, such as 
skyrocketing inflation, decreases in real wages, gas prices barreling 
towards $7 a gallon or $8--if you are a lucky Californian--or the 
invasion of our southern border, House Democrats are continuing their 
witch hunt against former President Trump, who seems to still be living 
rent-free inside their heads.
  This time, in a certain boost to their own vanity, the committee has 
hired former ABC News president, James Goldston, to produce it.
  They aren't interested in the truth. They aren't interested in 
justice; not even the intel that was available ahead of the possible 
Capitol break-in that they knew about.
  The committee is putting on a spectacle, a Hollywood produced, prime-
time television soap opera to distract viewers from the real policy-
made disasters.

  How out of touch are they with the American people? Do you think the 
young mother desperately trying to find formula for her newborn cares 
about this hearing?
  Do you think the farmer who can't plant this year due to the water 
shortage, the water being taken away, or the trucker who can't use his 
equipment because diesel is over $7 or $8 cares about this hearing?
  Even liberal San Francisco recalled their radical DA because he 
stopped caring about the people and opened up the city to a crime wave 
they haven't seen in decades.
  People want answers and change, and it isn't about this January 6 
deal.

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