[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 87 (Thursday, May 21, 2026)]
[House]
[Page H3684]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                         STOPPING PRICE GOUGING

  (Ms. TLAIB asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. TLAIB. Mr. Speaker, families across the country are struggling to 
afford groceries. The costs of eggs, milk, bread, baby formula, and 
fresh produce keep rising while giant grocery chains and corporate 
executives rake in record profits.
  Some of the grocery stores are now using surveillance technology and 
digital labels to squeeze even more money out of working people.
  It is shameful that corporations would raise prices on products that 
they know families need to survive. For me, this is corporate greed, 
plain and simple.
  No parent, not one individual, should be able to walk into a grocery 
store wondering if they can afford to feed their families because an 
algorithm or private data that the grocery chains got decided they can 
charge them more.
  That is why I introduced the Stop Price Gouging and Grocery Stores 
Act to crack down on crooked pricing practices and protect consumers 
from corporate abuse. Not one person who goes into a grocery store 
should worry about their private information being used to jack up 
their prices. We all deserve fair prices, transparency, and dignity, 
not exploitation at the grocery store.
  Mr. Speaker, I am calling on all of my colleagues to please support 
me on the Stop Price Gouging and Grocery Stores Act.

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