Going Beyond the Headlines, Mr. Grothman, March 18, 2022 — Congressional Record, House
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Congressional Record, House, page H3846, March 18, 2022. The page opens with remarks remembering Deputy Calata of the Pierce County Sheriff's Office. Under the heading Going Beyond the Headlines, Grothman of Wisconsin is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. Grothman discusses the bill regarding trade relations with Russia and says the money supply is going up year over year, over 35 percent, so that the cost of food, oil and manufactured goods is going to go up.
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H3846 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE March 18, 2022
one more way that he and his family Now, if these bills were signed to be- It kind of went up and down, and we
have stepped up to support others in come law, if the Senate does not amend went through a lot of years in which
need. them, the President will have a new inflation was relatively low histori-
Dom is nothing short of a hero. His tool in his toolbox if he wants to force cally, 1 or 2 percent.
loss is a devastating blow to our com- other countries to adopt the views of Then, you look in the last couple of
munity, and I am thinking of and pray- abortion and the views of LGBTQ that years, and some of this was due to
ing for the Pierce County Sheriff’s Of- are the views, quite frankly, of the left- overspending on COVID. But, more re-
fice and Dom’s family, friends, and wing of the Democratic Party. cently, we also have the American Res-
loved ones. The President will be able to threat- cue Plan in which apparently financial
I hope all of us in this House will en the parliaments or, for all I know, literates felt the way to benefit the
take a moment to remember Deputy lobbyists and demonstrators in foreign economy was to have the Federal Re-
Calata and his contributions to our countries by saying: You can’t get a serve print as much money as it can.
community and to our Nation. visa to the United States because we Now, look at this graph. Look at
f don’t like your stand on abortion. We what an aberration we are in at this
don’t like your stand on LGBTQ. time where the money supply is going
GOING BEYOND THE HEADLINES They can take assets in the United up year over year, over 35 percent.
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. States. And we are told this was some- I mean, you don’t need to be a Ph.D.
CHERFILUS-MCCORMICK). Under the thing that was threatened, at least the
in economics to know what is going to
Speaker’s announced policy of January visa thing was threatened, with regard
happen. The cost of everything is going
4, 2021, the gentleman from Wisconsin to elected officials in the Dominican
to go through the roof, oil being one of
(Mr. GROTHMAN) is recognized for 60 Republic.
If you don’t follow the U.S. party those things that is going to go
minutes as the designee of the minor-
line, you are not going to get a visa to through the roof, and the cost of food,
ity leader.
Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker, I the United States. We are going to the cost of any manufactured goods.
would like to comment a little bit on take your assets in the United States, I talk to farmers in my district. The
some of the issues that have been out take your bank accounts. cost of fertilizer, the cost of any other
there this week, issues that are impor- John Adams said that our Constitu- chemicals—through the roof. They are
tant issues but about which, for what- tion was made for a moral and reli- going to have to pass that on.
ever reason, I don’t think the public gious country. This is kind of going the Before you say that this inflation
has been adequately informed as to opposite way. had anything to do with Ukraine, look
what is going on. We hold contempt with people, reli- at what the M2 money supply was like
The first issue I would like to talk gious people, and say that we are going even before Ukraine.
about concerns the bill yesterday re- to weigh in with all the gifts we have This is such an aberration from any-
garding trade relations with Russia been given, the financial gifts we have thing else we have experienced in the
and an earlier bill with regard to oil been given. We are going to weigh in as United States, and it comes from peo-
exports from Russia, and that is an in- a country and say that we are going to ple who have convinced themselves
credibly important provision in that use those assets to punish foreign lead- that you can spend unlimited on any-
bill that has not been discussed in the ers who had Christian beliefs that not thing, and there is no cost to pay.
mainstream media, which is an amend- so long ago were held by the vast ma- I hope that the press in this country
ment of something called the Global jority of Americans. gets ahold of a graph like this and
Magnitsky Human Rights Account- I hope the press reports on this latest gives it to the American people so they
ability Act. power grab of the President. I hope the can see where we are and why the cost
Today, before that bill is signed, the public wakes up and makes sure that of everything is through the roof.
U.S. President can sanction foreign when these bills come back from the I really think the value of the dollar,
leaders or, I guess, pretty much any Senate—and that is to say, bills with not only in the last couple of months
foreign person, certainly any foreign regard to trade, bills with regard to but over the next few years, is going to
elected official, if they violated any oil—that they do not include this go downhill like nothing we have ever
human rights, and the definition of great, increased power of the President seen before.
human rights is fairly narrowly de- to punish, quite frankly, Christian I think since we switched to the Fed-
fined. countries. eral Reserve system in whatever it
When we think of horrible foreign I don’t think that has been ade- was, 1916, 1917, we are now in uncharted
leaders, we think of murder. We think quately addressed, and I think in most territory.
of kidnapping. We think of holding peo- newspapers articles, it wasn’t ad- Some people say that we should
ple without trial for excessive periods dressed at all. never have paper money because Con-
Now, I will address something else. I
of time. And we think if somebody is gress won’t be able to risk destroying
am going to talk a little bit about in-
going to be sanctioned, they should be the value of the Nation’s currency.
flation. A lot has been said about infla-
responsible for those human rights Well, it hasn’t happened until now, but
tion recently, and a lot of it focuses on
abuses. the price of gas, but there is high infla- wow.
In this bill, we change the definition As amazing as it is, as horrible as
tion everywhere.
of human rights to be open-ended, I have a very large manufacturing these numbers are, the majority party
whatever the President thinks human district. I tour my manufacturers all talks about still trying to pass the
rights are. Furthermore, we allow the time. It is not unusual to find man- Build Back Better bill that will make
sanctioning of people who are indi- ufacturers whose costs for metals were this go up even more rapidly.
rectly responsible for violating human up 400 or 500 percent well before there So, I beg the press corps to pay at-
rights. was an invasion of Ukraine. tention to the monetary supply and
Already, the United States weighs in Every manufacturer I talk to tells connect the dots as to why we have
when countries try to preserve laws me that they expect big inflation in such inflation.
that were the laws of the United States the next year. Again, that was before b 1130
not long ago, and I will say this with the invasion.
regard to two areas, the LGBTQ agenda I want to draw your attention to the ISSUES AT THE SOUTHERN BORDER
and abortion. graph here of the M2 monetary supply, Mr. GROTHMAN. Now, there is an-
Already, when you talk to people and you can look. We begin down other issue that is going on, and I
from Eastern Europe; the Caribbean; around 1970, 1965, the amount year over think to a certain extent because of
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the Dominican Republic, in particular; year that the monetary supply goes up. Ukraine it has been pushed into the
Central and South America, people are It sometimes goes up 6 or 7 percent per background, but it is still a vitally im-
mad because the United States throws year. portant issue, and that is what is going
around its substantial economic weight Those were in the bad old days of the on at the border. Just because KAMALA
to fight the Christian beliefs of these 1970s and the inflation that kind of hit HARRIS has been appointed the Border
countries. its peak during Jimmy Carter. Patrol czar, and she does absolutely
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nothing as far as we can tell, and it shot at—taking a dangerous job like taking a tougher stance in other places
doesn’t mean we should stop talking that and getting as little support from around the world, we wouldn’t be in
about this huge tragedy. the executive branch as you can imag- this mess in Ukraine like we are today.
In February, we had 165,000 encoun- ine? ISSUES SURROUNDING COVID
ters with the Border Patrol, up 63 per- Actually, I did notice in the recent Mr. GROTHMAN. Madam Speaker,
cent over last year. There were about appropriations bill that passed last the next issue that I think has dis-
72,000 people let into the country, and week, we are putting a lot more money appeared a little bit is with regard to
the figures aren’t out there, but they into monitoring the Border Patrol and COVID. We are now in a dip in new peo-
can guess that ICE let in another 19,000 making sure they are not mistreating ple getting COVID, but I think in the
more. Of that amount, 9,000 were unac- people. It is not a big concern for us ap- last week we are still around 5,000 peo-
companied minors. parently when an illegal immigrant ple who died of COVID. I think the last
If an unaccompanied minor shows up shoots at a Border Patrol agent, but we four people I have known who have
at the southern border, we don’t turn have to put millions of dollars more died of COVID really haven’t had a lot
them back to their parents. They usu- into the budget to make sure the Bor- else wrong with them, maybe nothing
ally write an address on their T-shirt, der Patrol is not breaking the law. No else wrong with them. I think there are
and we send them off to their aunt or wonder the Border Patrol does not feel a couple of things that have been
uncle, whoever, you know, it could be good about their situation right now. underreported or not focused on.
just a friend, whatever, and that is just I will give you another example of I have railed for almost 2 years here
par for the course. We pay to put the the brazenness of the illegals coming now on vitamin D. There was a study
little child on the airplane, we pay to here. Right now, migrants aren’t afraid out of Israel that was released fairly
ship them somewhere; maybe not their to call 911 and get escorted with a ride recently that said that if you were defi-
parents, maybe just friends or what- to where they want to go, and we just cient in vitamin D—and in the study
ever. If you want to talk about divided taxi them in. If they are kind of wan- they say deficient being 20 nanograms
families or breaking up families, you dering around, let’s make a 911 call, per milligram, which is pretty defi-
look at the current system where every and they show up. Nothing wrong with cient—that you would be 11 times more
month 9,000 kids who are younger than them, no healthcare problem, we just likely to die of COVID.
Now, given all the massive amount of
age 18 are let in this country without use our local emergency services as an
ink—if they still use ink—and the mas-
their parents. escort service.
I had a staffer go down there because We still have a situation in which sive amount of time that has been
we had to work late last week, but I people don’t have to be tested for spent educating the public on how to
will be down there next week. And COVID. Okay. But it is kind of strange avoid COVID or avoid dying from
COVID, I would think a little bit more
there were some other observations I that American citizens, say if you
time would be spent by the public
made as far as what it is like on the work for a hospital, are required to get
health establishment looking at the ef-
border. Gangs play music on the Mexi- a vaccine, and we don’t even test you if
fects of vitamin D.
can side of the border as people march you are trying to come in this country. You are 11 times more likely to die if
across. It is a festive atmosphere. No- What are the priorities here? you are under 20 nanograms. What can
body even pretends that the United People coming in from what we call
we do about that? First of all, it ought
States cares about what is going on at special-interest countries are going up,
to be publicized. Secondly, it should be
their border. be it Pakistan, Yemen, Iraq, countries par for the course that, particularly if
The drug gangs make $3 billion a like this. you are older and you go in for a
year, we believe, transporting people So, in any event, I encourage the
checkup, that your doctor gives you a
here. The charges are between $2,000 press, and that encourages the so-
vitamin D test. Right now, your reim-
and $20,000 to come here because they called conservative press, or the bal-
bursement levels for that test may not
run that border. anced press, to report to America when be quite up for the cost.
It is not in just our Vice President we are having 80,000 or 90,000 people We all know that the medical estab-
where we have a lack of leadership. The cross the border every month, report lishment in America today, particu-
California Highway Patrol can’t report what type of people are coming here, larly the hospitals, are obsessed with
illegals they find to ICE because of the, report on the mass decrease in the money. But people are dying out there.
I would almost call it, treasonous be- number of deportations, as even people If you test somebody for vitamin D,
havior of one of our States. Increas- who have committed crimes are re- and they are down around 15 or 17
ingly, we are getting people coming moved at a much lower rate than they nanograms, you can alert that person
here who not only do they not speak were by Donald Trump. Because I do and perhaps save a life. There are all
Spanish, they speak an indigenous lan- think if we look back at America 10 sorts of people walking around with in-
guage from southern Mexico or, more years from now and say, how did the sufficient vitamin D levels. They don’t
likely, from Central America. They are policies of 2022 affect America, still the even know it. They don’t know the im-
obviously very difficult to process, and number one most damaging thing is portance of it.
you have to wonder about the wisdom that we ignored our border. I will also point out that they should
of letting people in this country when I will point out one more thing about especially point out the value of vita-
nobody can speak their language. ignoring the border. Right now, we do min D to people of color. We know peo-
We are getting people from Iran, have a crisis in Ukraine. Hopefully, we ple of color are more likely to have low
Iraq, and Uzbekistan, which of course are not going to have a similar crisis in levels of vitamin D, and therefore the
are breeding grounds for terrorism. Taiwan. I have felt all along that an ef- incompetence or the failure of the pub-
These people are paying up to $20,000 a fect of not enforcing our border is to lic health establishment not to educate
head to come into this country. tell foreign leaders who don’t like us people on vitamin D has disproportion-
Doesn’t that concern anybody? that we have kind of a wimpy, ineffec- ately affected people of color.
The hotels, the airlines in Mexico ob- tive, incompetent government in They talk about people of color a lot
viously know this is going on because charge right now. in this institution, and I think a lot of
people take airlines from, for example, Other normal countries do not let times they talk about prejudice that is
Cancun to Mexicali. We know hotels 90,000 to 100,000 people a month cross not there. But here you have some-
south of the border are being used by into their country, and leaders around thing in which people are dying over-
illegal immigrants, but because it is the world look at that, and they, quite whelmingly, and for whatever reason,
becoming so common, it is built into frankly, think that the current execu- the public health establishment does
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the Mexican economy. tive branch of this country is not a se- not ring the alarm as far as how much
Obviously, when we do so little to rious elected official, and they chal- darker skin increases the possibility
prevent this illegal immigration, mo- lenge somebody who is not a serious that you are going to get serious
rale from the Border Patrol is low. How elected official. COVID. So I beg the CDC and the pub-
would you like it if you are taking a There is no doubt in my mind that if lic health establishment to focus a lit-
job—and recently they have even been we had been enforcing that border and tle bit more on vitamin D.
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I will also point out that different is the lowest, by the way, other people who has done what he can to fan the
doctors have different opinions as to talk about 15 million—without talking flames of saying police are racist, po-
how you should treat somebody for about the 4 million Ukrainians who lice are racist, I think it would do a lot
COVID, and I have no problem finding were starved to death by the Com- toward making it easier to hire police
doctors who find that drugs like munist, Marxist government that ran around the country and easier to be an
ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine the Soviet Union at that time. effective policeman if he would pub-
given early will save lives, and a lot of I would again ask that our press run licly apologize to the police of this
times those same doctors feel a drug special features on the starvation that country for his slandering them and his
called remdesivir is not effective. took place 90 years ago. First of all, compatriots slandering them, and tell
Now, I don’t think the subcommittee when 4 million people are starved, it them what a good job they are doing.
that we have had here has studied that should be something every American So those are some of the issues that
enough. But with remdesivir, appar- school child knows about anyway; but I hoped the press would pick up on.
ently the hospitals—and this is largely secondly, when you look at the animos- In conclusion, I will make one more
the drug companies getting the ity of the Ukrainians toward the Rus- comment with regard to Ukraine. This
money—you are going to get billed out sians, that certainly plays a big role. I is a disaster for Ukraine. It is just a
over $3,000 a day for the treatment, and have a sneaking suspicion the reason horrible thing. We all feel so good
the treatment for ivermectin is nomi- we don’t talk about it is because it is about how brave they are; about the
nal. one more embarrassment to the athe- fight they have put up.
I talk to doctors, smart doctors, doc- istic, totalitarian left that some power- Eventually, that war has got to end,
tors that are well published, who tell ful people in this country like to look and I never feel, when I am dealing
me that they could have saved tens of up to. So again, I wish that the news- with members of this administration,
thousands, maybe over 100,000 lives if papers would cover the Holodomor, and or Congress, in general, quite frankly,
doctors could give the off-label drugs I wish that the schools would cover it that there is enough focus on ending
that were originally prescribed for an- because no school child should be able the war.
other purpose, but the doctors aren’t to graduate from high school without There are newspaper reports saying
allowed to by the hospitals that they knowing about this. that Israel might be getting involved
work for. b 1145 in trying to negotiate an end. But the
This is a potential scandal. I would United States is still the most impor-
And it is also important so they can
think normally the press would be a tant powerful country in the world.
be on the lookout for big government
little bit inquisitive when we say one And I wish the administration would
atheists, wherever they are. I think
drug is worth $3,200 a day and one drug take a little bit more time negotiating,
you also have to know about what the
is under $50 a day, and smart doctors trying to negotiate an end to that con-
big government atheists did to under-
feel the drug for $50 a day or under $50 flict.
stand why we fought in Korea, to see
a day is more effective. But for what- Madam Speaker, I yield back the bal-
why we fought in Vietnam.
ever reason we don’t talk about it. If But America’s school children, quite ance of my time.
something wrong is going on around frankly, well older than school chil- f
here, the reason they are able to get dren, are blissfully ignorant of the
away with things going on is because DEMOCRATS ARE DELIVERING
Holodomor and what can happen if you FOR AMERICA
the press doesn’t highlight it. let a bunch of atheistic big-government
The reason why hospitals are not giv- types take over the government. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under
ing drugs that some doctors feel are The final thing that I am going to the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan-
more effective are directives from the focus on here a little bit, I have before uary 4, 2021, the gentleman from Flor-
NIH. And, again, I think drug compa- thanked President Biden for giving the ida (Mr. SOTO) is recognized for 60 min-
nies have too much power in this town, State of the Union speech and not talk- utes as the designee of the majority
but it is something that should be ing about racism. But I still think one leader.
looked into by the media. It surprises of the problems we have with high Mr. SOTO. Madam Speaker, the Re-
me that some people still aren’t aware crime in this country—and my district publicans lost the majority and the
of this. borders the city of Milwaukee. The city Presidency because of their incom-
CONFLICTS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE of Milwaukee, for the second time last petence on COVID and the economy,
Mr. GROTHMAN. The final thing year, had the highest murder rate they and passed a tax cut for the rich that
that we will focus on here a little bit is have ever had. exploded the deficit by $400 billion, and
what is going on in Ukraine. I still feel When I was a child, the city of Mil- the debt by $4 trillion.
that for whatever reason, and I have waukee was the safest of the 25 biggest So forgive me if I won’t stand here
talked about it here, we have not done cities in the country. But we have gone and be lectured about fiscal responsi-
enough to discuss the Holodomor. The downhill. And I think a lot of that is bility from folks who took their only
Holodomor was the starvation of 4 mil- the police have been beat up; they are moment in charge to give windfalls to
lion Ukrainians in the early 1930s by called racists, and they are afraid to do the wealthiest Americans, and now
the Communist government. their job. They are afraid of having a they are desperate to paint a sad pic-
At the time, it was underreported in complaint filed against them. We still ture of America. They are invested in
the United States because at that time, have a bill floating around Congress our Nation’s failure, solely as a des-
for reasons unknown to me—I wasn’t saying it should be easier to sue police. perate move to try to get back to
around at the time, it is a mystery to And, as a result, we do get these high power.
me today—The New York Times is per- murder rates. Meanwhile, we Democrats are deliv-
ceived to be the paper of record. And In addition to the high murder rates, ering. First, we defended democracy. I
The New York Times, a guy by the we have, together with our lax policy was up there in the Chamber on Janu-
name of Walter Duranty decided not to at the border, 100,000 people dying ary 6 when a violent insurrection at-
talk about the starvation. He decided every year from drug overdoses. But, tempted to stop the democratic, peace-
to keep it secret. Probably because at again, it was 45,000 7 years ago. That ful transfer of power. This violent in-
the time the intellectuals, the type of was high. And I think whether it is surrection was stoked by my Repub-
people who work at the big newspapers, 45,000 or 100,000, people’s eyes glaze lican colleagues. They don’t want to
liked to look upon the left favorably, over. If it was your child, if it was your talk about that now. But that’s too
and because it was Communists who sibling who died of a drug overdose, bad.
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were starving people, it is not some- maybe your eyes wouldn’t glaze over. They attacked our democracy. They
thing they like to talk about. But the media in this country, their desecrated this Chamber by stoking ex-
I do not know how you can intel- eyes have glazed over, and we continue tremism. Yet, we got back here and
ligently talk about the relationships to let people die. they voted ‘‘no’’ and we voted ‘‘yes’’ to
between Ukraine and Russia without So, in conclusion, in any event, my make sure that American voters were
talking about the 4 million—and that final ask here is that President Biden, heard and certified Joe Biden’s election
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