Three Major Crises

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, during my time tonight, my colleagues and I will address three major crises happening here at home, happening close to home at our southern border; and happening to our closest ally in the Middle East, and that is Israel.

Each of these issues that my colleagues will discuss tonight can and should be addressed in a bipartisan way. We should all want Americans to get back to work. We should all want to end the humanitarian crisis at our border, and we should all want to support one of our closest allies from terrorism.

It is time for President Biden and our Democrat colleagues to work with Republicans to solve these problems for the American people and for our allies.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for those remarks on Israel. We do stand strong with them.
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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, we are admonished even by Scripture to pray for the peace of Israel, and we will.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, there are three major crises we are talking about again tonight: the economic crisis here at home, the crisis happening close to home at our southern border, and what is happening to our closest ally in the Middle East, Israel.

I yield to the gentleman from Pennsylvania's 12th District (Mr. Keller).

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. He is the highest-ranking military officer ever elected to the United States Congress and also my friend.
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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, that does sum it up. It is a very real crisis we face.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas.

Stefanik), our newly elected conference chairwoman.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I thank our conference chair from the great State of New York, and we will go across the country to the other coast to the State of California, the 25th District represented by Mr. Garcia.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend from California, and I move to the great State of Texas next, the 36th District.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for that great reminder.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire how much time I have remaining?

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for his important comments.

Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina. Mr. Speaker, just like that, America faces four simultaneous crises: loss of control of the border, energy supply disruption, a sudden spurt of stagflation, and a key ally under assault.

Why is all this happening at once on the eve of the 4-month anniversary of Inauguration Day?

Because a weak President signals a weak America. The President sets the tone, and, today, it is very different than the previous 4 years.

On the world's stage, our adversaries are newly emboldened, and our allies more vulnerable. After several years of creative Trump peace deals, Israel is already under attack.

Is that a coincidence?

No. Hamas and other terrorists knew that with Trump there would be consequences. They know with Biden there will be none.

At our southern border, we have plateaued at a 20-year high for illegal border crossings. It is not slowing down. The word is out: You can cross without consequences. In fact, Biden and his allies think progress is expanding the throughput.

Persons are also now experiencing gas shortages, last seen with Jimmy Carter. Even before, the price at the pump sky-rocketed.

Why?

Because this President doesn't value or fight for American energy independence, like the last one. Instead, he cancels our pipelines and green-lights Russia's. Now families have new worries about their fuel budgets, while being lectured to by this legislation on leftist green energy fiascos.

Perhaps, most pressing of all, our economy is not recovering as it should, while all the warning signs of inflation grow stronger. Practically every day I hear the same thing from North Carolina small businesses, that they cannot find workers. And after that last pathetic jobs report, it is clear that this isn't isolated to any home State.

Biden isn't fighting for jobs. He is paying more to not have one.

What we are seeing across the board is trickle-down weakness, and the adverse effects are clear. For the first time in 4 years, America has a President who backs down without a fight, and it is costing us. Biden is nowhere to be found on the issues that matter. In his absence, Republicans will keep fighting for the American people.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, we will keep fighting, indeed. I thank the gentleman for his comments.

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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Amen to that. I appreciate my friend and those great comments.
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Mr. JOHNSON of Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I thank all my colleagues for participating tonight. I realize we are out of time.

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