Expressing the Sense of Congress That A Carbon Tax Would Be Detrimental to the United States Economy

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Mr. LARSON of Connecticut. Mr. Speaker, let me associate myself with the remarks of Mr. Neal and talk about what a fraud this whole process has become.

I have great respect for the gentleman from Louisiana, but can you imagine never having a hearing on this. Let me tell you who would like to come to that hearing: Jim Baker, a devout, you know, liberal. You have George Shultz, Martin Feldstein, Greg Mankiw, Hank Paulson, Art Laffer, Gary Cohn, Rex Tillerson, to name a few, who say that Congress ought to at least be open to looking at a carbon tax.

According to the other side, it is a choice between a carbon tax or not a carbon tax. They don't talk about passing on the benefits to the consumer. They don't talk about the transition that is needed or strengthening the pension funds or even from the standpoint of an infrastructure bill that they have never addressed in 8 years while China moves ahead of us every single day. Nothing gets done in the House of Representatives.

Here we have a fake debate and fake legislation that is going nowhere instead of actual, real hearings. We don't have real hearings on Social Security and its outcome. We don't have real hearings on gun violence. We don't even have real hearings here on the state of what is going on with this administration and the FBI and our intelligence people.

This is the sad state of affairs that we find ourselves in. So if you see frustration on this side of the aisle, it is primarily because, in the most demonstrative democracy in the world, not even a hearing, a suggestion about bringing experts to talk about what this could possibly do. What a sham.

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