[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 193 (Tuesday, December 13, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H9707]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   BIDENFLATION ENERGY CRISIS ONGOING

  (Mr. WILSON of South Carolina asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr. Speaker, last week the average for 
a gallon of gas was shamefully $1 more than when Biden took office. A 
gallon of diesel, fuel for trucks and ships, is nearly 50 percent 
higher.
  Due to irresponsible energy policies of Biden and Democrats, 
inflation reached 40-year highs, and families are hurting. In the last 
year, one-third of households have reduced or skipped necessities like 
food and medicine to pay energy bills, according to a LendingTree 
survey.
  The National Energy Assistance Directors Association has said that 
household energy costs will be the highest in 15 years.
  On Saturday, I was grateful to be on a codel warmly welcomed in Kiev 
by Ukrainians thankful for defensive weapons which last week stopped 85 
percent of Putin's missiles and Iranian drones. Putin must be stopped 
from freezing Ukrainians to death as Stalin starved Ukrainians to 
death.
  President Biden joined Turkish President Recep Erdogan and French 
President Macron pledging additional defensive weapons to courageous 
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Sunday.
  In conclusion, God bless our troops, who successfully protected 
America for 20 years, as the global war on terrorism continues moving 
from an Afghan safe haven to America.

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