Jean-Pierre: The suggestion that Ambassador Rice was aware of concerns about migrant child labor is categorically false, and not connected [to her leaving White House].
[translation: Rice not only knew, but assisted in facilitating child labor]
LIVE: Rules Committee Hearing on HJ Res 39 and HR 2811
Chairman Cole: Last year, [Biden] issued an executive order suspending these import duties [on Chinese solar panels]. He placed green climate ideology above the best interests of the American people.
McGovern describing the republicans debt ceiling conditions as, 'extortion'.
Rules Committee Witness: More than ninety percent of green subsidies [Inflation Reduction Act] go to corporations that make more than one billion dollars.
Rules Committee Witness: As recently as last week, the Biden administration was claiming taxpayers would be handing over an additional four hundred billion to those eighty-seven thousand [IRS] employees…we crunched the numbers and found such audit rates would mean one million additional audits, and over six hundred and fifty thousand Americans who make less than seventy-five thousand dollars a year, will be audited.
Rules Committee Witness: We ended welfare as we know it.
Rules Committee Witness: Inflation was 1.4% the month before passage of the American Rescue Plan. When that two trillion dollar spending bill came into effect, that's when inflation started to rise, and it's gone up 14.9 % since that happened.
Gwen Moore [Rules Committee]: That white boy [in the TV commercial] didn't have any kids, at home with his momma playing video games. He is probably some rich entitled somebody who didn't have to..somebody acting in a commercial.
Gwen Moore [Rules Committee]: The person you are describing does not exist. This able-bodied person who does not work [and receives government benefits] does not exist.
Rules Committee Witness: The federal government is forty percent larger, today, in 2023, than it was pre-COVID in 2019.
Rules Committee Witness: [COVID relief funds] were used to fund the bailout of union pensions…that was one hundred billion dollars.