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      S.006 | Hamas Condemnation Resolution

      Madam President, I second the motion
      Redacted in Senate Floor
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      S.006 | Hamas Condemnation Resolution

      Madam President, I stand in firm support of the right of the State of Israel to defend itself from the barbaric terrorist organization known as Hamas. This terrorist organization murdered 1,139 people, including 815 civilians. These monsters killed young people at a music festival. This organization is evil in every sense of the word and the time is now, as it has always been, to stand with the state of Israel. We must make clear to the American People that Hamas is evil and must be defeated. Our universities have become unsafe for Jewish students because of rallies of hate, cultivated by deliberate efforts to delegitimize the Israeli State. This is unacceptable and must be roundly condemned. I am hopeful to see 100 members of this chamber declare their undivided support for Israel’s right to exist and fight the scourge that is Hamas. I motion for unanimous consent. I yield.
      DMH in Senate Floor
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      S.001 | Price Gouging Prevention Act of 2024

      Mr. President. Let me rise to say that it takes a lot of courage to come out and acknowledge that the last three years under President Biden has been a disaster. After all, the sponsor has stated that disasters can lead to increased prices. So, glad to see that the sponsor is finally on the same page as everybody else in America dealing with inflation and the disaster that has been this presidency. Nonetheless, I believe the gentle lady from Nevada is being somewhat misleading about the intent of this bill. I’ve become very familiar with the rhetoric being pushed in the more left-leaning echo chamber and they will tell you that this is designed to address so-called price-gouging “anytime and anywhere.” And their definition of price gouging is absurd. Stop pretending that this is designed to address price gouging in disasters. We are not stupid. I’ve heard Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky of Illinois talk about price gouging in the grocery industry with relationship to this. Yet, the current profit margin for grocery stores across this country has been about 1.6 percent. That’s price gouging to those who want this bill passed. A 1.6 percent profit. In the end, what we have here are price controls. Anyone who knows the history of that knows the catastrophic failure of that policy. In the early 1970s, food yields went down 15-25 percent in this country. Wheat was particularly hard hit. A nation that could once feed the world became almost incapable of feeding itself. The price controls under President Nixon may have been popular to some, but when the aftermath was a turbulent agricultural sector that saw bankruptcies and economic decline we know what a failure was and we want to do the same thing again with this legislation. And for those who hate big corporations, the bankruptcies that will come from this will be the family farms while large-scale agribusiness corporations will weather these asinine policies. You will be left with large corporate farms when the dust clears. The reality of economic life is that we have had a deluge of federal spending that has driven abnormal demand outside of traditional supply-and-demand market forces. We’ve seen energy costs rise, leading to cost-push inflationary cycles. And in the past three years, this administration has taken a turn from the Trump administration’s rollback of the regulatory state to inflict regulatory cost. And yet, this bill wants to pretend that the market forces emanating from that economic reality means treating a symptom not the cause. This policy failed in the 1970s. It will fail today. I yield.
      Butcher in Senate Floor

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