[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8228]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            AUGUST INFLATION

  (Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, August was another month under President Biden 
where inflation exceeded economists' expectations. The Consumer Price 
Index was up 8.3 percent over the past year, and if you exclude food 
and energy, it rose six-tenths of a percentage point in just 1 month.
  On the same day, the higher-than-expected inflation number came out, 
President Biden and congressional Democrats held an event at the White 
House to celebrate the passing of the Inflation Reduction Act, which we 
all know will do nothing to slow inflation.
  Tennesseans are bearing the brunt of the President's disastrous 
fiscal policies, all while the President celebrates passing a bill that 
raises taxes amidst a recession, spends more than $400 billion on woke 
Green New Deal programs, and hires 87,000 new IRS agents to target the 
middle class.
  Borrowing and spending more money won't ease the pain in our 
pocketbooks. The only solution is an end to one-party control of 
Washington.

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