Congressional Record, House, June 16, 2021 — Self-Inflicted Crises Special Order
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Page H2880 of the House section of the Congressional Record for June 16, 2021, from a Republican special order titled Self-Inflicted Crises. Mr. Johnson of Louisiana opens by saying the crises at home and abroad are self-inflicted and the direct results of Biden administration policy decisions, which is his view. Mr. Joyce of Pennsylvania, Mr. C. Scott Franklin of Florida and Mr. Perry speak, with Mr. Franklin calling spending programs reckless and warning against borrowing money from China. Another speaker argues for research on decarbonizing steel and cement and a return to 350 parts per million of CO2, and a further speaker mentions nisei who sought to enlist in World War II.
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H2880 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE June 16, 2021
better than Switzerland, personally, Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. American people are counting on us,
but let’s at least aspire to be as good as Speaker, during my time tonight, my and they deserve a President who will
Switzerland; double our efficiency. colleagues and I will address the major ensure their safety, security, and free-
The second thing we have to do is do crises happening here at home, hap- dom, both here at home and abroad.
the research and development to figure pening close to home, and now hap- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman
out how to decarbonize industries like pening abroad. Our message tonight from Florida (Mr. C. SCOTT FRANKLIN),
steel- and cement-making because we will cover many topics, but the theme who represents Florida’s Fifth Congres-
don’t know how to make silicone; we is consistent. These crises are self-in- sional District.
don’t know how to make steel; we flicted. There are the direct results of Mr. C. SCOTT FRANKLIN of Florida.
don’t know how to make cement; we disastrous policy decisions from the Mr. Speaker, I rise tonight because our
don’t know how to make fertilizer Biden administration. country is facing a growing economic
without fossil fuels today. That is an We have a large number of Members crisis, a crisis of the Biden administra-
R&D challenge we have to figure out. who want to participate tonight, so I tion’s making.
Then we have to get to zero CO2 will begin immediately by yielding to With his massive and reckless spend-
emissions; not by 2050, not by 2030, by the gentleman from central Pennsyl- ing programs, President Biden has
1990. We have to get back to 350 parts vania (Mr. JOYCE), my good friend. mortgaged our economic security.
per million in the atmosphere because Mr. JOYCE of Pennsylvania. Mr. Long after this current administration
that is the point that we can say to our Speaker, under the leadership of the has skipped town, future generations of
children: We are leaving you a better Biden administration, Americans are hardworking Americans will be stuck
planet than the one we inherited, facing escalating challenges to our holding the bill.
where wildfires are not the norm, economy, to our national security and, It is human nature to like free stuff,
where droughts are not the norm. ultimately, to our way of life. As we I suppose, and as long as Uncle Sam is
And is it going to be easy? have heard many times, our Nation willing to dole out money to everyone
No. But we know how to do it. continues to jump from crisis to crisis. and everything in sight, it is easy to
The first thing we ought to do is take On this floor, I have often raised con- understand why people are happily lin-
our hand off the emergency brake. Stop cerns about the border crisis, and it ing up for their fair share.
subsidizing yesterday’s technology. continues to spiral out of control as we It is also a universal truth that there
Embrace markets. Embrace innova- record an increasing number of mi- is no such thing as a free lunch. Un-
tion. Embrace all that makes us Amer- grants crossing the southern border, checked spending doesn’t just hurt us
ican. Stop subsidizing the fossil fuel in- along with gang violence, human traf- in the future. It is also destructive in
dustry by $650 billion a year. ficking, and deadly illicit drugs. the near term.
Unleash the power of our innovators. Border agents seized over 900 pounds My Democrat colleagues have tried
Unleash the power of our entre- of fentanyl at our southern border last for months to convince the American
preneurs. Unleash the power and the month alone. Today, we are witnessing people that it is only the rich who will
innovation of all our great universities an escalating crisis and, unlike our pay for reckless spending policies, but
and national labs who will figure out Vice President, the American people people know better. Americans across
how to do these hard things. aren’t laughing. the country are starting to feel the
And then, yes, even after we do all More than 80 days ago, President pinch of this unbridled spending.
that, make significant Federal invest- Biden tasked Vice President HARRIS They are certainly noticing it back
ments in the things that the private with addressing the border crisis. in my home State of Florida, where
sector is not very good at, like trans- Months later, she has yet to visit the drivers are paying more for gas than
mission, like coast-to-coast broadband, border and witness the devastation they have in nearly a decade. They see
like EV stations. We have done it be- firsthand. it when they go to the grocery store,
fore. That is how we built the rail- b 2045 where prices on everything from a jar
roads. It is how we electrified the coun- of peanut butter to a gallon of milk
How many days will it take? One
try. have spiked sharply. They are feeling
hundred? Two hundred? A year?
It is not going to be easy, but it will If Vice President HARRIS needs en- the pain on nearly everything they
be necessary. It will be inspiring, and it couragement to get to the southwest buy, with consumer costs rising at the
will be a story that we will tell our border, then Congress can provide an highest rate in nearly 13 years.
grandchildren about because we will be incentive. I am proud to support Con- This inflation President Biden has
able to tell them that we were there, in gresswoman ASHLEY HINSON’s See the created is an immediate tax on work-
this moment; we saw what was nec- Crisis Act, which would defund Vice ers, causing each hard-earned dollar to
essary, and we made it possible. I think President HARRIS’ international travel be worth less than it was before. At the
that is something worth doing. until she visits America’s southwest same time, skyrocketing costs of mate-
It is our opportunity. It is our mo- border. rials are making it even harder for
ment. It is simple. If the Vice President small business owners to reopen.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance wants to go to Europe, then she must With high unemployment, record job
of my time. go to the border first. openings, and spiraling inflation, it is
f This is no laughing matter. At home time for the Biden administration to
in Pennsylvania, the border crisis is a acknowledge that their bad medicine is
SELF-INFLICTED CRISES
matter of life and death. Lives are de- hurting the patient. Congress has the
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under authority and the responsibility to rein
pending on border security.
the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan- The truth is clear: We can’t afford in this reckless spending, and the time
uary 4, 2021, the gentleman from Lou- the Biden border crisis. We can’t afford to act is now.
isiana (Mr. JOHNSON) is recognized for the Biden economic crisis. We can’t af- Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
60 minutes as the designee of the mi- ford the Biden national security crisis. Speaker, my friend is exactly right.
nority leader. And we can’t afford the Biden energy The people do know better, and the
GENERAL LEAVE crisis. pain hardworking Americans are feel-
Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. This pattern is rooted in the Biden ing is very real.
Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that administration’s broken policies. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman
all Members have 5 legislative days to Under President Biden’s watch, we are from Pennsylvania (Mr. MEUSER), who
revise and extend their remarks and in- a nation in crisis. represents Pennsylvania’s Ninth Con-
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clude extraneous material on the sub- The American people are paying at- gressional District.
ject of my Special Order. tention, and they are counting on us to Mr. MEUSER. Mr. Speaker, in less
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there stop this alarming trend and restore than 6 months, the Biden administra-
objection to the request of the gen- our Nation’s path to recovery. tion’s policies have disrupted the fun-
tleman from Louisiana? Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. damentals of our economy and have
There was no objection. Speaker, I thank the gentleman. The caused significant inflation.
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In March, congressional Democrats ises to the contrary, President Biden’s States abroad and weaken the effec-
pushed through the $1.9 trillion Amer- policies are crushing small businesses tiveness of our foreign policy, sending
ican Rescue Plan, some thought after and hurting hardworking Americans. a dangerous signal to our allies and our
the recovery began, in a highly par- The simple fact is that we should be adversaries alike that the United
tisan process without one Republican cruising into an economic recovery States tolerates anti-Semitism, that
vote. This level of spending was unwar- thanks to the Trump administration’s we no longer believe in the long-term
ranted. Even many liberal-minded advancements. Instead, we are drown- mission of supporting free peoples and
economists estimated it was three ing in Democrats’ reckless spending free markets, and that we no longer re-
times bigger than needed and warned of packages that have led to a greater in- main committed to combating acts of
inflationary pressures not seen in a crease in inflation rates than we have terror against the United States and
generation as a result. seen since the 2008 economic crisis. our allies.
Inflation occurs when too many dol- As a result, Americans are paying While we are encouraged that several
lars are chasing too few goods, and pre- more for everything. Gasoline is over of my colleagues across the aisle have
dictability, this influx of spending re- 50 percent more expensive today than posed their strong rebuke of these anti-
sulted in prices increasing 4.2 percent it was 12 months ago. Transportation American comments and policy
in April and 5 percent last month. The services are up 11 percent since last stances, the only rebuke on this issue
reality is that inflation is a tax, Mr. May. Food and energy prices have seen that will have any meaningful impact
Speaker, on every American family a combined price increase of nearly 4 is one by the Speaker and the majority
who is now paying more for essential percent, a dramatic increase that we of the House of Representatives.
goods, such as food and gasoline and haven’t seen since 1992. To turn a blind eye on this would be
many others, and whose savings are The average American simply cannot a ‘‘cowardly refusal,’’ as Speaker
now worth less. Again, even liberal- afford this, and it is time that we PELOSI characterizes it, to hold Mem-
minded economists called this the least prioritize American paychecks over bers on your side of the aisle account-
responsible fiscal policy of the last 40 wasteful government spending. able and dereliction of your role as the
years. Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
leader of your party and as the Speaker
At the same time, businesses are Speaker, ‘‘reckless’’ is a word we hear
of the House of Representatives, an in-
struggling to compete with Federal un- over and over tonight and as we talk to
stitution we all so proudly and honor-
employment benefits. In one month, 4 our constituents because there is no
ably serve.
million Americans walked off their better word to describe what is hap-
Anti-Americans have no right to
jobs. Last month, there were a record pening with this administration.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman threaten our country without retribu-
9.3 million open jobs, a level not seen tion. America deserves better.
since the beginning of World War II, from Florida (Mr. GIMENEZ), the former
mayor of Miami who represents Flor- Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
when Americans were leaving to go Speaker, my friend is exactly right.
fight the war. Yet, the Biden adminis- ida’s 26th Congressional District.
Mr. GIMENEZ. Mr. Speaker, many of That language is dangerous, and our
tration denies the correlation between colleague that he referenced is contrib-
open jobs and excessive, untargeted un- my colleagues tonight have been
sounding the alarm on the crisis our uting to the foreign policy crises that
employment benefits. have developed rapidly over the last
Undeterred by the data, the Biden ad- country faces at the hands of the most
radical, progressive fringes of our poli- few months.
ministration shows no sign of letting
tics. Institutionally, we are facing a Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentle-
up, proposing a $6 trillion budget this
grave danger right here in Congress, woman from Arizona (Mrs. LESKO).
year that will put our country on a Mrs. LESKO. Mr. Speaker, there is
path to record debt and that reports with a sitting Member of Congress
choosing to continue her anti-Semitic growing evidence that COVID–19 origi-
show will disrupt our long-term eco-
and anti-American rhetoric from the nated in a lab in Wuhan, China, which
nomic growth.
halls of our government. the liberal media and Big Tech dis-
The Biden administration is per-
sistent in its charade that inflation is When a Member of Congress, who de- missed as a conspiracy theory.
scribes themselves as a starter of fires, Time and time again, the Chinese
not occurring, unemployment benefits
fuels anti-Semitic violence against Communist Party has lied and covered
don’t deter work, and their policies
won’t significantly disrupt our coun- Jewish communities by perpetuating up the origins of COVID–19. Repub-
try’s strength and economic growth. false stereotypes and anti-Semitic licans have repeatedly called for a full,
The reality is, the Biden agenda only tropes; denigrates strategic allies of thorough investigation into this virus,
grows government, not the private-sec- the United States and accuses Members but these calls have fallen on deaf ears.
tor economy. of Congress of unconstitutionally It is unclear why my colleagues on
This can be a great American decade pledging allegiance to a foreign sov- the other side of the aisle have refused
if we unleash the power of American ereign because of their support of the to hold Communist China accountable.
innovators and entrepreneurs, but we U.S.-Israel partnership; whitewashes They refuse to allocate any resources
can’t do that under the yoke of exces- the September 11 terrorist attacks that to support a full investigation or even
sive and untargeted spending, in- resulted in the death of over 3,000 inno- hold a hearing. They are allowing
creased taxes, and inflation. We must, cent Americans; draws equivalence be- China to get away with its deadly lies.
Mr. Speaker, grow opportunity in tween the United States and criminal Over 600,000 Americans have died
America, which creates the American organizations such as Hamas and the from COVID–19. It is time to stop push-
Dream. Government should only serve Taliban, both of which have been ing the America last agenda that
this purpose. deemed by the Department of State as prioritizes the Chinese Communist
Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. terrorist organizations, it is the abso- Party over giving the American people
Speaker, my friend said it so well. This lute responsibility of Speaker PELOSI the answers they deserve.
administration either doesn’t under- and Democratic leadership to hold Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
stand those fundamentals of the econ- their Members accountable. Speaker, my friend from Arizona is ex-
omy or doesn’t care. It is very per- Unfortunately, Speaker PELOSI has actly right. This crisis with China and
plexing. lacked the backbone to act and has the Chinese Communist Party is per-
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman chosen to cower in terror as Members haps the greatest threat that we face
from Indiana (Mr. BAIRD), who rep- of Congress in her party shred America as a people today, and we need the
resents Indiana’s Fourth Congressional apart from this podium. White House to stand strong. I am so
District. They may call themselves a fire grateful she brought that good word.
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Mr. BAIRD. Mr. Speaker, I thank my starter, but I have built my career as a Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman
colleague from Louisiana for his allow- firefighter. I cannot and will not allow from Pennsylvania (Mr. KELLER), who
ing me to have the opportunity to be this behavior to go unnoticed and be represents Pennsylvania’s 12th Con-
here and speak on this issue. allowed to be swept under the rug. gressional District.
Today, I rise, Mr. Speaker, because These comments and policy stances Mr. KELLER. Mr. Speaker, when I
our country is in crisis. Despite prom- undermine the interests of the United was a kid, my brother and I would help
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our dad make ends meet by collecting from overdoses. There has been over a nial, distortion, and concealment of
aluminum cans on the side of the road. 300 percent increase of fentanyl seized the coronavirus pandemic from its crit-
We didn’t make much, but what we at the southern border. Even FBI Di- ical beginning to the present day is
made, we used to buy food. Very early, rector Christopher Wray said that overwhelming.
we learned the value of a dollar. there was no question that cartel ac- In January 2020, if not before, the
Today, the value of that same dollar tivity from Mexico is spilling over into Chinese Communist Party knew it was
has plummeted because of wasteful, the United States. And yet the Biden dealing with a fast-spreading disease in
Big Government spending, like the administration is silent. Silent. Wuhan but rejected transparency in
kind President Biden has embraced Today marks 84 days since Vice favor of a propaganda campaign to
with his disastrous economic policies. President KAMALA HARRIS was fool- spread disinformation.
One of President Biden’s core cam- ishly dubbed the border czar. Last From manipulated statistics and the
paign promises was that he would not week, when asked when she planned to prevention of an investigation by inter-
raise taxes on any Americans making actually do her job and visit the bor- national experts to ousted journalists
less than $400,000 a year. What he failed der, she had the audacity to laugh. If and whistleblowers who were silenced
to mention was the hidden tax brought any American didn’t show up for their through intimidation and foul play,
on by his inflationary spending. In job for 84 days, they would probably be there are countless examples of how
May, the Consumer Price Index jumped fired. the CCP lied to the rest of the world
to 5 percent, the fastest rate since 2008. Clearly, this administration has all about the origins of the pandemic.
Every American is feeling the strain but abandoned our border communities Prominent epidemiologists and biolo-
from this administration’s reckless and all of its American citizens. What gists have raised concerns about a pos-
spending spree. From the gas pump and a slap in the face to the American peo- sible spillover in the Wuhan lab, and
the supermarket to the clothing store ple, the rule of law, his sworn oath of CDC director Dr. Walensky said it is
and the car dealership, Americans are office, and to the migrants who put possible COVID could have leaked from
spending more and getting less. their lives at risk to come here because a lab.
While the current administration Biden told them to and encouraged It was recently reported that three
shovels trillions of taxpayer dollars them to. researchers from China’s Wuhan Insti-
So what will it take? How much tute of Virology became ill with symp-
into the furnace of a runaway train, it
worse does the worst border crisis in toms consistent with COVID–19 and
is clear that Joe Biden is intent on sad-
our history need to get before Presi- sought hospital care in November of
dling our kids and grandkids with in-
dent Biden begins fulfilling his duty to 2019. On top of that, China has not been
surmountable debt.
defend and secure the homeland and forthright in sharing information nor
It is time for Joe Biden to stop play-
protect us and our sovereignty? How have they cooperated with the U.S. or
ing politics with taxpayer money and
many more children need to be thrown the global community.
start doing what is right for our coun-
from 18-foot walls or abandoned to die? The dishonesty of China’s Com-
try. Let’s get Americans back to work,
How many more women and girls and munist leadership regarding the
get the government out of the way, and
young boys need to be sexually as- coronavirus pandemic has led to hun-
allow taxpayers to keep more of their
saulted, trafficked, or murdered? How dreds of thousands of American deaths,
own money. After all, they have earned many more Americans need to die from
it. millions of sick Americans, and tril-
drug overdoses or have a loved one hurt lions of dollars of economic damage to
b 2100 by an illegal alien who shouldn’t even
our country.
Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. be here? In the face of this mounting evi-
Speaker, Mr. KELLER is correct. When I am speaking for the millions of
dence, I join 211 of my House colleagues
we were kids, they taught us the value Americans who have empathy for those
in urging Speaker PELOSI to inves-
of a dollar. That is not what our Demo- wanting to come here but who want to
tigate the origins of COVID–19. But
crat colleagues are teaching anymore. do so in a legal way. I am speaking as
House Democrats continue to stone-
Now they are subscribing to what we a descendant of immigrants myself. I
am speaking as a taxpaying citizen wall this effort.
call fantasy economics, modern mone- The Biden administration and House
who knows that we are trillions of dol-
tary theory and all the rest. Mr. KEL- Democrats cannot continue to turn a
lars in debt and do not have the money
LER is exactly right, and I am so grate- blind eye to the CCP’s nefarious behav-
to pay for noncitizens who are break-
ful that he brought that word tonight. ior. We must penalize and hold the CCP
ing our laws. Lastly, I am speaking as
Mr. Speaker, I yield next to the gen- legally and financially responsible for
an American who loves his country
tleman from Texas (Mr. BABIN), rep- the human and economic suffering its
enough to die for it. Enough is enough.
resenting the 36th District. President Biden needs to do his job, Communist Government has caused.
Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, I have one secure our border, and protect this Enough is enough.
question for President Biden and his great Nation and the oath that he Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
administration: What will it take? We swore to uphold. Speaker, that is such an important
are halfway through 2021 and more Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. point. The evidence is mounting that
than 700,000 illegal aliens have already Speaker, despite the obvious mag- China is indeed responsible for the
been apprehended unlawfully crossing nitude of that big problem on the bor- COVID crisis, and we must hold them
our southern border. der that we have seen and talk about accountable.
Finally, as this administration be- all the time, hammering home that Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman
grudgingly chokes out the words ‘‘bor- theme, there have been zero visits to from Louisiana (Mr. HIGGINS), who rep-
der crisis,’’ Americans and migrants the border by the President or the bor- resents the Third District, and is the
alike are being raped, trafficked, kid- der czar, the Vice President. third Louisianan on the floor now.
napped, exploited, and murdered. In fact, when KAMALA HARRIS was Mr. HIGGINS of Louisiana. Mr.
Drug cartels are fully in control of asked in an interview this week if she Speaker, my ancestral forefather trav-
the U.S.-Mexico border and in many planned on visiting the border, she eled to this country 200 years ago or so.
places on both sides of the border, and laughed about it. But I tell you, those He was born a poor Irishman with no
they are not stopping there. They are Customs and Border Patrol agents will path toward prosperity that did not
infiltrating every community across tell her that it is no laughing matter. lead through oppressive government,
the country—not just down at our bor- I am grateful that Mr. BABIN brought indentured servitude.
der States—and they are hell-bent on that forward tonight. He arrived in the port of New Orleans
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causing us harm. Every State is now a Mr. Speaker, I yield next to the gen- after scrapping together enough money
border State. tleman from Tennessee (Mr. ROSE), my to book passage on a sailing vessel that
More deadly drugs, like meth and good friend, who represents the Sixth had been converted from carrying
fentanyl, are coming up through the District. cargo to carrying human beings. He
southern border than ever before to Mr. ROSE. Mr. Speaker, the evidence survived the journey, although many
kill over 70,000 Americans every year of the Chinese Communist Party’s de- poor Irishmen did not.
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He came to this land seeking free- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman rely on are quickly rising. The Con-
dom. He found it. He prospered. And from Georgia (Mr. CARTER), who rep- sumer Price Index, which tracks the
through the generations the Higgins resents Georgia’s First Congressional cost of things, like food and energy,
family established itself as a solid, District. jumped 5 percent in May compared to 1
working-class American family. Con- Mr. CARTER of Georgia. Mr. Speak- year ago.
struction workers, firemen, police offi- er, I thank the gentleman for yielding. This inflation is the ultimate cost of
cers, soldiers, and sailors. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss President Biden’s $2 trillion Big Gov-
After my father passed, my mother the many foreign failures President ernment spending spree back in Janu-
and her sister, my Aunt Gloria, took it Biden and the Democrats have made ary, Mr. Speaker. The Federal Govern-
upon themselves to research the family putting our national security and ment is printing money at a breakneck
tree. They discovered some of the country at risk. pace, decreasing the purchasing power
truths that I am sharing with you to- When President Biden came into of- of our dollars.
night. This was way before the Internet fice, he and Vice President HARRIS in- Meanwhile, businesses can’t get folks
and computers and iPhones. They vited people to come through our bor- to come back to work, thanks to Presi-
worked in the actual archives. der. President Biden even stopped con- dent Biden’s generous unemployment
One of the things they discovered was struction of the highly successful and benefits. And lately in east Tennessee,
a letter written by my ancestral fore- necessary border wall. I have heard stories from small busi-
father describing the conditions on a The Biden border crisis was prevent- ness owners who can’t find enough
vessel he traveled to America upon. His able, and can be fixed if President workers to keep up with their demand.
sleeping berth measured 2 by 2 by 5. 2 Biden and Vice President HARRIS would They need to tell the folks at
by 2 by 5. I think about that as I serve visit the border like I have. Wright’s Cafeteria, where my good
within this body. President Biden has also been apolo- friend David Wright owns his res-
I recognize the pain that our ances- getic to our Nation’s greatest foes. He taurant that was his mama’s and dad-
tral forefathers and foremothers en- refused for months to acknowledge the dy’s, they can’t get folks to come back
dured to carve this country of great- possibility that the coronavirus was to work. He is still too behind in the
ness from the wilderness. There has man-made in the Wuhan lab. He let big kitchen. He hasn’t been open for
never been a moment when American tech silence those who spoke out about months.
patriots claimed that our Nation was the evidence, despite leaked emails Another friend of mine, Mike Chase,
perfect. We have always known that we from Dr. Fauci that showed even he owns Calhoun’s, which is a world-fa-
are imperfect men driven by perfect in- knew the lab leak theory was highly mous restaurant chain in the area.
tent to create a nation where a man possible and likely probable. And, actually, in Gatlinburg, Ten-
could breathe free, and indeed we have. And now President Biden wants to nessee, they have had to close down in
The sovereignty of America requires
hand our vaccine technology over to a tourist section of our community
action from this body and from this ex-
China free of charge. Members on both that is heavily populated during the
ecutive, our current executive, to
sides of the aisle recognize the dangers day by well-heeled tourists wanting to
maintain the security and sovereignty
of this. Yet President Biden would spend their money, yet he had to close
of our Nation at the southern border.
rather side with the Chinese Com- down because he can’t get people to
The very promise of America is threat-
munist Party than American work.
ened by the policies and weakness of
innovators and American workers. Another friend of mine, Charlie
action and refusal to act in response to
And most recently, the Biden admin- Peroulas, at the Pizza Palace, world-fa-
1.1 million criminal crossings year to
istration and my colleagues across the mous onion rings. Mr. Speaker, I would
date.
aisle won’t condemn anti-Semitic com- literally crawl across Magnolia Avenue
b 2110 ments made by Members of this Cham- on glass to eat their onion rings. They
The very freedoms and opportunities ber. are that good. And his pizzas are great
that our ancestral forefathers and To conflate the U.S. and Israel with as well. He has not been able to have
foremothers came to this country to Hamas and Iran is disgusting. It is full shifts and to serve the community
embrace, the blood and life and limb wrong. And it is an insult to the men as he has in the past.
that has been sacrificed by generations and women who fought for our country Stories like these, though, aren’t
of patriots past have preserved Amer- and who still defend our country unique to east Tennessee, Mr. Speaker.
ica. against terrorism. This is happening all over the country.
America itself is imperiled from It is time for President Biden to put Businesses are raising their prices to
within. It is the duty and the sworn America first. President Trump did, stay alive, and those costs are passed
oath of Members of this body to ring and our country was stronger than ever along to the American consumers.
our voices loud and clear across the before. Now it is time for President President Biden promised there
land that we will not allow America to Biden to do his job and stand up for the would be no tax increase on working
fall into decline. We will not become U.S. and hardworking, patriotic Ameri- Americans, but inflation sure as heck
judicious managers of our Nation’s fall. cans. isn’t leaving any money in the pockets
We will stand and we will fight; we will You work for Americans, not for for- of our middle class, Mr. Speaker. His
make noise and we will be heard. eign countries. outrageous spending is causing long-
I thank my colleague for allowing us Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. term economic damage and saddling
to gather this evening and speak on be- Speaker, that is a great reminder of future generations with debt. And if
half of the citizens that we serve, the who the President serves, and it is con- President Biden isn’t stopped in this
Nation that we love, and the future founding to us that he doesn’t under- venture, future generations will inherit
that we will not allow to demise. stand these basic truths. a worthless American dollar, Mr.
Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman Speaker.
Speaker, I thank Captain HIGGINS for from Tennessee (Mr. BURCHETT), who Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
those impassioned words. He is exactly represents Tennessee’s Second District. Speaker, the gentleman covered a lot,
right. Mr. BURCHETT. Thank you, Mr. and he is right, this crisis we have, the
One of the things that is so heart- Chairman, for yielding. Second Con- jobs and the economy was so prevent-
breaking, frustrating, unconscionable gressional District, but first in our able.
about this is we can solve this crisis at hearts. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman
the border pretty simply. All we need Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Always. from South Carolina (Mr. WILSON), one
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the White House to do is reimplement Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, 1 year of my heroes in the Congress.
the Trump-era policies because that in- ago, the average cost of gas in America Mr. WILSON of South Carolina. Mr.
creased border security, it discouraged was $2.17 a gallon. Today, it is $3.07 per Speaker, I thank Chairman MIKE JOHN-
illegal immigration and it reinstituted gallon, a 41 percent increase. SON for his leadership for promoting
law and order, and we can do that, but But it isn’t just gas prices. Costs for the truth tonight. It has been so re-
they won’t. many goods and services Americans freshing to hear our colleagues bring
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facts to the American people that they Of course, we have a border crisis. We Well, we might have been born at
need to know. have a law-and-order crisis going on. night, Mr. JOHNSON, but it wasn’t last
And thanks to the leadership of Vice We have a leadership crisis in this night. We know it is happening. It is
President Mike Pence through Oper- country. We are ceding the leadership obvious to any Economics 101 student.
ation Warp Speed to develop the of the United States of America to The Biden administration and Demo-
Wuhan virus vaccine, America has been thugs in Russia, China, and Iran. crats in Congress have extended these
able to get back to work with jobs We have a political crisis, where ev- benefits through September. So guess
being available. erything is politicized, where we can’t what? It is just going to keep going.
In May of this year, the Centers for even get together on things we agree Labor is going to cost more, and ev-
Disease Control released updated guid- with because the other side forces you erything associated with labor is going
ance saying that fully vaccinated peo- to take votes that potentially destroy to cost more. Who is it going to hurt
ple no longer needed to wear a mask or the fabric of our country, our neighbor- the most? The people working the
social distance in most cases. America hoods. The things that we agree on, we hardest at the bottom trying to make
should be completely open for business can’t even do that here because there their way out.
to create jobs. has to be a political price to pay for ev- Families can’t afford it. Do you know
We saw President Trump created erything. who else can’t afford it, Mr. JOHNSON?
jobs. Under his leadership, we had Of course, the financial crisis—infla- My good friend. I have a friend at
record low unemployment for African tion is here, and it is here to stay. In home. He started a business 51 years
Americans, for Asian Americans, for May, consumer prices spiked 5 percent ago. He came home from fighting for
Hispanics. We had record employment. from the previous year. That is the big- his country in Vietnam, and he started
The most number of jobs ever for youth gest spike since August 2008. Remem- a business from scratch 51 years ago.
and women in the United States by ber that? The beginning of the Great He hired hundreds of people and was
cutting taxes, not raising the taxes ei- Recession? known around the world for his prod-
ther directly or by inflation, as Mr. We don’t have to be doing this, but I uct.
Biden is doing. think we are going to do it again. Over- Well, guess what just happened this
Unfortunately, the Biden administra- all, prices jumped at a shocking 9.7 per- month?
tion does not agree with science. Even cent annualized rate from March Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
with this huge win to the American through May. That is 10 percent. Oh, by Speaker, out of business.
people, the administration and Demo- the way, that coincides with the time Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, gotta shut
crats want to continue to have unem- that the Biden fiscal policies started her down, man. Gotta shut her down.
ployed Americans be dependent on the coming into play. They are beginning The policies affect people’s lives.
to devastate the economy like we knew Like I said, the President and Sec-
government by incentivizing them to
they would. retary Yellen said that inflation wasn’t
remain unemployed with increased
In real terms, if you are driving, you real just a few months ago. Now they
benefits that pay more than a small
are paying 40 percent more today than are saying it won’t be permanent. If
business can provide, destroying jobs.
I commend Governor Henry you did at the start of the year. you believe what they said a couple of
McMaster for ending these increased And it is artificial, right? We closed months ago, you might as well believe
benefits and getting South Carolina the Keystone pipeline down. We let that.
Russia have their pipeline, but we While they are pursuing another $6
back to work. Congress should follow
closed ours down. Do you think the gas trillion in spending, we can’t go to the
suit creating jobs.
I am grateful to be a cosponsor of isn’t coming? It is still coming. We are bank. We are just going to print it.
H.R. 3104, the Get Americans Back to just paying a lot more for it because Guess what is going to happen? It is
Work Act, sponsored by Congressman they have to put it on a truck or a going to be runaway inflation, and it is
DUSTY JOHNSON. This bill will remove train. Heaven forbid, it can’t go actually going to threaten the continu-
the supplemental Federal self-destruc- through the Keystone pipeline. Oh, we ation of this very Republic. And that
tive benefits by June 30 of this year. can’t have that. spending is in addition to the $2.1 tril-
I encourage my colleagues to pass Guess who pays? Every single one of lion budget deficit for the first 8
this legislation. We must not continue us. But who does it hurt the most? Do months of this fiscal year, the largest
to indebt future generations with reck- you remember the days when you were on record, which follows $3 trillion last
less spending or create inflation, which growing up and couldn’t afford to fill year, which was another record.
destroys the retirement savings of our up your gas tank? You put five bucks We just simply can’t afford these
senior citizens and equally is crippling in and prayed you got to the end of the reckless policies. We love our country.
to small businesses that are the back- week? That is who it is hurting, and it We want to work with the other side.
bone of this country. is happening again. This isn’t working. It is not working
Jobs are uplifting, fulfilling, and Food prices are up 2.4 percent, and for the American people. It is not
meaningful for a productive life. the transport cost of food, up 25 per- working for any of us.
Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. cent. Again, who does it hurt the most? We are at the tipping point in a lot of
Speaker, the Biden administration Meanwhile, the May jobs report ways in this country. One of them is
Democrats continue to push policies shows 9.3 million job openings in the economic, and we can do something
that pay people more to stay at home U.S., nearly a million increase over the about it. But we need the President to
than go back to work, so the results numbers for April. have some fiscal restraint. We need the
That is the largest increase ever people in this body to have some fiscal
are not surprising at all.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman since the Bureau of Labor Statistics restraint.
from Pennsylvania (Mr. PERRY), who began counting. These are indicators of Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman
represents Pennsylvania’s 10th Con- bad things happening. They are also in- for offering this Special Order tonight.
gressional District. dicators and a manifestation of bad We don’t need to kowtow. We don’t
policy when we, as the government, need to kneel at the altar of the green
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Mr. PERRY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my they make if they would go to work. agenda.
good friend, Mr. JOHNSON, for this Spe- Who can blame them? They are look- We have a great country, and we
cial Order, talking, unfortunately, ing out for their economic best inter- could save it. We don’t have to let
about the things that make us sad to ests. If they can make more staying China open a coal plant—one every
see happening in our country. home, well, God bless them. They have week—while we hobble ourselves and
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Here, before, they were talking about to because they have to pay the higher shut ourselves out of the great re-
the climate crisis. We sure do have a prices from all this inflation that is sources that we have in this country.
climate crisis. We have a climate of un- ‘‘not happening.’’ I say that tongue-in- We don’t have to do it.
bridled spending happening in this cheek because that is what the Presi- Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
country without any eye toward the dent has told us, and that is what Speaker, I am very grateful for those
consequences. Janet Yellen told us. comments.
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Mr. PERRY is exactly right. He men- amount of fentanyl in the first 8 But the virologist who told Fauci
tioned Economics 101. Some of our col- months of fiscal year 2021 than it did in that SARS–CoV–2 potentially looked
leagues would do well to go take a re- all 12 months of fiscal year 2020. engineered—he eliminated his Twitter
fresher course. The numbers will only continue to account. That article is June 7th.
Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman rise as more illicit substances come And then we find out that ‘‘weight-
from Georgia (Mr. CLYDE), who rep- across the border through September, adjusted hydroxychloroquine and
resents Georgia’s Ninth District. especially as Biden continues reversing azithromycin boosted survival of venti-
Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, I rise Trump’s successful border policies. lated COVID–19 patients by 200 per-
today on behalf of the people of Geor- Enough is enough. We must put coun- cent,’’ according to a study. We have
gia’s Ninth District to bring attention try over progressive politics, and I look had hundreds of thousands of Ameri-
to two major issues plaguing our coun- forward to standing with my Repub- cans who have died while Fauci and
try as we speak, the economic crisis lican colleagues to do so. others belittled a hydroxychloroquine
and the Biden border crisis, as both Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. regimen, and the good that it could do,
will affect our country for years to Speaker, I thank my friend for those and the good it has done for most of
come. remarks, and I thank him for his serv- those who have taken it.
Inflationary pressures are crippling ice. So we know that in the 1950s Presi-
consumer purchasing power at record Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how dent Eisenhower said: No, we got no U–
rates, and our national debt is on the much time is remaining. 2 flights going over the Soviet Union.
rise. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- And they shot one down. He had to go
My constituents are eager to course- tleman has 13 minutes remaining. on TV and say: I am sorry, I lied. I am
correct our Nation’s fiscal ship so we very sorry, I thought I was doing the
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can guarantee that the American right thing by the country.
Dream is attainable for future genera- Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. In the 1960s, President Kennedy, he
tions of Americans. Unfortunately, the Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from went on television, and said: I am
Biden administration shows no signs of Texas (Mr. GOHMERT), who represents sorry. It is my fault, basically, that
curtailing its spending habits any time Texas’ First Congressional District. people died in the Bay of Pigs invasion.
soon, as Democrats are keying up a Mr. GOHMERT. Mr. Speaker, But who is going to come forward
plan to shoehorn through Congress, the emails—as this headline says from and say, you know what, this was my
progressive American Jobs and Fami- Wendell Husebo—emails show Anthony fault? It is not going to be Fauci. We
lies Plan, which combined total $4 tril- Fauci scrambled at the beginning of don’t know if it will be President
lion in deficit spending. the pandemic to determine the poten- Biden, but somebody owes a big apol-
Folks, the debt is already at $28.4 tial U.S. role in funding coronavirus re- ogy to the American people.
trillion. The White House has an- search abroad, and that was because he Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr.
nounced a budget that will leave the provided money to a firm that provided Speaker, Mr. GOHMERT is exactly right.
American people holding a stunning $39 money to the Wuhan lab. And the scope of that tragedy is some-
trillion in debt by 2031. And what is As this points out, after Fauci made thing that is hard to wrap your mind
truly scary? The interest payments on that comment that we didn’t do that, a around.
the debt are on track to eclipse our Na- couple months later, the man respon- Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman
tion’s defense spending in just 10 years. sible for steering U.S. Government from West Virginia (Mr. MOONEY).
As a military officer, that doesn’t sit funding to the Wuhan Institution of Vi- Mr. MOONEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise
well with me. rology, Peter Daszak, the president of today to address an issue of great im-
The looming debt spiral will quite EcoHealth Alliance, thanked Dr. Fauci portance to all of our constituents:
literally be the death of the American on April 18, 2020, for publicly dis- their economic livelihoods. It has only
Dream as we know it if we don’t act missing the theory coronavirus may been 6 months since President Biden
now. It is clear the Biden administra- have leaked from that lab to which took office and already our country is
tion has no regard for Americans’ they furnished money. moving in the wrong direction.
pocketbooks, nor does it show any re- Here is another story from the same Under President Trump we saw un-
morse for the future generations who person. Anthony Fauci said in released paralleled economic growth. Now under
will be left to bear the brunt of Demo- emails: Drugstore masks are not really President Biden, we are faced with
crat-controlled spending. effective. more and more government spending,
If that wasn’t enough of a crisis, it He told us, Oh, gosh, you know, we fewer and fewer people going back to
has been 84 days since Vice President need to be taking a mask, everybody work, and skyrocketing inflation,
Harris was tapped as the border czar, should be wearing a mask, but that was which devalues your money. You can
yet she still has not made a trip to the only after he had been against it before see here, a picture is worth a thousand
U.S.-Mexico border. I have traveled to he became for it. words. 4.2 less percent value to your
the border twice and have personally And this points out and quotes him dollar today after all the spending the
witnessed the escalation of the crisis. as just being one of the biggest hypo- government has been doing here lately.
Why has the Vice President not gone? crites. And in fact, that he completely By the end of 2020, the economy was
The Department of Homeland Secu- lied to the American people, because he resurgent. And since the economy was
rity published shocking statistics that says that ‘‘Masks are really for in- crippled by the initial lock-downs in
paint a very clear picture of how the fected people . . . ’’ He goes on further: March and April of 2020, there had been
Biden administration policies are cre- ‘‘The typical mask you buy in the an improvement in the unemployment
ating a devastating crisis on the bor- drugstore is not really effective . . . ’’ rate each month, until this spring.
der. Last month, encounters at the bor- and he says, ‘‘I do not recommend that After 11 months of significant job
der exceeded 180,000. This level of ap- you wear a mask, particularly since growth, the unemployment rate in-
prehension has not been seen in over 21 you are going to a very low risk loca- creased this past April for the first
years and is up 675 percent when com- tion. Your instincts are correct, money time since last year.
pared to May of last year. is best spent on medical counter- More Americans are getting vac-
Dangerous human traffickers, gang measures such as diagnostics and vac- cinated every day and COVID–19 re-
members, and other criminals are cines.’’ strictions are being lifted around the
smuggling deadly drugs over the border But as Fauci emails show, the U.S. country. This should be a time when
and into our communities at an alarm- scientists knew COVID looked engi- the recovery reaches new heights.
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ing rate, refueling the opioid crisis, the neered only days before insisting that There were 9.3 million jobs openings in
very crisis former President Trump the virus was natural. And that is an- April. That is more job openings than
successfully subdued. other one of the reasons that Rep- any other time in the last year. But
When we look at fentanyl seizures resentative TAYLOR GREENE filed the those jobs may not get filled any time
alone, Customs and Border Protection Fire Fauci Act, and I would encourage soon, due to President Biden and many
has already seized almost double the people to get on board. of my Democrat colleagues’ and
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friends’ decision here in this Chamber continue opening up the economy, and tonight can and should be addressed in
to continue an unsustainable level of let people earn a living again. That is a bipartisan way. All of us on this side
Federal unemployment benefits. Some our country’s path forward. of the aisle want to do that. We are
workers can make more money on un- Mr. Speaker, I have a couple more anxious to do that. We should all want
employment than going back to work. comments I would like to make on a Americans to get back to work. We
Commonsense dictates that if you separate issue. should all want to end the humani-
pay people not to work, they will take I rise today to address the crisis at tarian crisis at the border. We should
you up on it. Most people will not act the southern border. These images here all want to achieve peace through
against their own economic interests show children being dropped over the strength on the international stage.
by working if they can make more border fence, and show migrants nearly It is time for President Biden and it
money staying home. drowning trying to cross the river on is time for our Democrat colleagues to
The failure of the Biden administra- the border. work with Republicans for the Amer-
tion has forced some Governors to act Ladies and gentlemen, dumping chil- ican people.
on their own. So far, 25 States have an- dren across a fence like this into the Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance
nounced plans to wind down the extra wilderness is not an immigration pol- of my time.
$300 a week in Federal unemployment icy. That is child abuse. That is not f
benefits. how we are supposed to do this. It is an ‘‘GO FOR BROKE’’ STAMP RELEASE
Governor Jim Justice in my State of outrage. If President Trump had done
West Virginia announced that our The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under
that, he would be attacked everywhere.
State will join that group here this the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan-
The border crisis is a humanitarian
month, in June. So when Federal lead- uary 4, 2021, the Chair recognizes the
crisis. Even the President of Guate-
ership fails, Governors must step up gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. CASE) for
mala, Alejandro Giammattei, blamed
half of the time until 10 p.m., which is
and make the best decisions for their the Biden administration’s open border
91⁄2 minutes.
States. messaging calling it ‘‘lukewarm’’ and
GENERAL LEAVE
West Virginia has had a particular ‘‘confusing.’’
problem with worker shortages for Mr. CASE. Mr. Speaker, I ask unani-
He explained this messaging actually
years now. Gil White, who is our State mous consent that all Members have 5
increases the number of unaccom-
Director of the National Federation of legislative days to revise and extend
panied minors that are sent out on the
Independent Businesses, was asked on their remarks and include extraneous
journey and are subsequently traf-
WV MetroNews about the worker material on the subject of this Special
ficked by coyotes and cartels.
shortage, and he responded, ‘‘That is Order.
Data shows that Customs and Border The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there
not a myth; it’s a reality. I don’t care Patrol agents stopped over 180,000 ille- objection to the request of the gen-
if it’s large business or small business gal border crossings in the month of tleman from Hawaii?
employers. I think there is a common May alone, the highest in over 20 years. There was no objection.
theme that finding workers is very Look, we can have our own opinions, Mr. CASE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today
challenging, to say the least.’’ but we are not entitled to our own with my colleagues for so many to rec-
After a tumultuous year with govern- facts. ognize and honor a stamp just issued
ment shutdowns and strict capacity This is a crisis, ladies and gentlemen. by the U.S. Postal Service that, with
limits, the last thing small businesses It is time for America’s border czar, stunning simplicity, remembers, recog-
need is a worker shortage that leaves Vice President KAMALA HARRIS, to do nizes, and honors one of the most re-
them unprepared to meet the demands her job and address the humanitarian markable and inspirational stories in
of a reopening economy. crisis at the border to protect to lives the whole of our country’s history.
President Biden’s solution to this of these young children. It is a story of tragedy, perseverance,
problem, along with every other prob- and triumph that is so quintessentially
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American, that goes so deeply to our
hard-earned taxpayer dollars. But with Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. essence, and that offers the most fun-
our budget deficit at an alarming level, Speaker, how much time remains on damental lessons that we must never
and you see it here how it is just sky- the clock? forget. And that is the point of this
rocketing, our budget deficit, more The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gen- stamp, that we never forget the story
spending will bring about more prob- tleman has 3 minutes remaining. of the Japanese-American soldiers of
lems. Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. World War II and their famous motto,
Our debt is currently $28 trillion, and Speaker, I will need to summarize, which is its own lesson: ‘‘Go for
our deficits have grown substantially then. broke.’’
larger in the past year due to spending I am delighted to have had so many For many of us, the story is well-
increases in response to COVID–19. of my colleagues here tonight to help known and has instructed and inspired
And, yet, President Biden is currently us sound the alarms and inform the our own lives. But for a growing num-
pushing for more than $4 trillion in American people what is going on here. ber of our fellow citizens of our coun-
new spending. $4 trillion. We have a crisis here at home. We try and world it is not. So permit me
President Biden has proposed to build have a crisis on the southern border. just a brief retelling.
hundreds of thousands of electric vehi- And we have multiple developing crises As World War II loomed, Americans
cle charging stations, retrofit buildings abroad. You heard the broad spectrum of Japanese ancestry were beginning
across America, to make them greener, of all those tonight, Mr. Speaker. their third generation, or nisei, in sub-
and a laundry list of other progressive Whether it is our concern about jobs stantial communities, yet they re-
priorities. in the economy with the rising infla- mained largely marginalized because of
Despite his sometimes moderate de- tion, with this humanitarian crisis their race. In Hawaii, they constituted
meanor, President Biden’s platform is with young children and traffickers over one-third of our population, yet
far left. President Biden made a long and drug cartels at the border, or largely still labored on plantations or
list of promises to the left wing of his whether we are talking about this ad- worked in small businesses. The same
party, like when he said he would ‘‘get ministration’s critical foreign policy was true on the West Coast, from
rid of fossil fuels.’’ It should come as blunders, you can summarize it all, Mr. Washington through Oregon to San
no surprise that his administration is Speaker. Diego.
shaping up to be the most liberal in re- Maybe it was summarized best to- Some nisei saw war with Japan com-
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cent memory. night by the gentleman from Pennsyl- ing and sought to enlist in our armed
We should not keep borrowing money vania (Mr. PERRY). He said in one services, but they were largely denied
from China in order to spend money phrase: We have a leadership crisis. out of race and suspicion, and sought
that we don’t have here in America. We certainly do. But I will tell you, to prove themselves through service in
There is a simple solution, unwind Mr. Speaker, all these issues and every- the Guard or in Hawaii, the Varsity
these expensive government programs, thing that my colleagues talked about Victory Volunteers.
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