[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 199 (Wednesday, December 21, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H9923]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                     OPPOSITION TO OMNIBUS SPENDING

  (Mr. COMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise to strongly encourage our Senate 
friends across the hall to oppose this omnibus spending bill and get 
back to regular order and allow Congress to debate this massive 
spending bill and to offer amendments on the floor the way the Founding 
Fathers designed this body.
  We just had an election, Mr. Speaker, and the voters overwhelmingly 
said that the biggest issue to them was inflation. We have inflation 
because this body has spent too much money, but apparently, this body 
did not get the message from the voters.
  I am going to have the honor of being the chairman of the House 
Oversight Committee in a few weeks. One of the priorities of this 
committee will be to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement 
in the Federal Government.
  We have agencies like the NIH, the CDC, the FBI, the FDA, the IRS, 
and the list goes on and on, that cannot account for the spending of 
massive amounts of tax dollars, yet this body is going to give all 
those Federal agencies a blank check for another 12 months.
  We need to oppose this and get back to regular order.

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