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CHARTING ECONOMIC CHANGES DUE TO BIDEN POLICY
(Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, this chart by the Republican Study Committee shows the difference not just a year makes but what an attitude to governing makes toward making a living and managing families' needs, even enjoying what you have earned and how you see fit to spend it.
Energy independence: Stopping production and oil and gas infrastructure in the U.S. gives higher prices, which are eclipsing $4 now even in my home State of California.
Lumber: Though our California and Western forests burn millions of acres each year, somehow we have a lack of harvest and lumber shortages, thanks to strange environmental thinking prohibiting the forest harvest and management we need to prevent fires and keep the lumberyards full. I know it is not the logger or the log truck driver making the killing here in the quadruple pricing per board-foot.
Home costs: They ride right up there with lumber as well, and all the other inputs, up 20 percent.
Coffee: Up 50 percent. Coffee has to come from somewhere.
Wheat: Up big. Bread and cereal won't be any cheaper. Will the farmer see this windfall? Not likely.
Corn: The same thing. Will the farmer do any better with the much higher cost of corn? No.
Copper: Used in so many of our mechanical and electrical devices, it is going up, making it harder to wire our homes.
The bottom line is: Everything you need is much more expensive, thanks to Biden policy.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 167, No. 88
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