Providing for Consideration of H.R. Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act of Providing for Consideration of H.R. Defending Education Transparency and Ending Rogue Regimes Engaging in Nefarious Transactions Act; and Providing for Consideration of H.J. Res. Providing for Congressional Disapproval Under Chapter 8 of Title United States Code, of the Rule Submitted By the Department of Education Relating to ``Improving Income Driven Repayment for the William D. Ford Federal Direct Loan Program and the Federal Family Education Loan (Ffel) Program''

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Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding.

Mr. Speaker, I noticed that the gentlewoman from New Mexico just posited that it is Republicans who want to drive up the prices and costs of everything for the American people. However, Mr. Speaker, what she doesn't tell you is that what she means is that we don't believe that government funding is how one measures how people prosper in this country. In fact, it is our Democratic colleagues who force through regulations, policies, and programs that are making the American Dream completely out of reach for the American people. We are seeing it every single day with a President and administration that literally don't care what the impact is on the average American family.

Mr. Speaker, 87 percent of Americans do not have student loans. Large numbers of Americans have paid off their student loans or are still working to do so. My wife, who is the product of a single mom and who put herself through school and figured it out, is still paying off her loans, which she has done for 20 years now. That is the truth.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to ignore the Supreme Court. They want to end-run both common sense and the law. They want to find ways to subsidize the handful at the expense of the many.

They are doing it not just with education. While they destroy our education system and undermine the American Dream for the American public, they are also doing it with respect to chasing unicorn energy dreams while they subsidize billion-dollar corporations. They subsidize the wealthy with EVs, electric vehicles that cost $16,000 more than the average internal combustion engine. Now, they have a rule being carried out by executive fiat by the administration that they want to put in place that will force, by 2032, approximately two-thirds of the fleet of automobiles being built for the American people to be electric vehicles.

That might be concerning if you are a working-class American given that they cost $16,000 more, given that they are demonstrably more expensive to repair, and given that they are demonstrably less flexible for your life, Mr. Speaker. If you live, for example, in Texas, you might need to drive from Austin to Midland or Austin to Dallas or Houston or need to be able to move around the State. You might be a farmer and need to haul goods and services.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle don't seem to care about people who live in the northern States, where it is cold and where batteries take a full charge just to defrost--in Alaska, for example.

That mandate doesn't seem to matter to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, so the American people are going to be the ones left holding the bag, unable to do their jobs, unable to carry out their livelihood, and unable to afford the basics of life.

The average American family is spending $11,000 a year more just to make ends meet since the beginning of this administration in January 2021. Now, this administration wants to pile on.

My colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to stop us from doing our job in Article I to check an out-of-control executive branch and an out-of-control Biden administration that is bankrupting the American family and destroying the American Dream.

Republicans in this body, in this Chamber, have been advancing bill after bill that would help the American people, secure the border, have a strong national defense, help them afford education, and stop the ridiculousness of these mandates driving up the cost of vehicles. They send them over to the Senate, and they die.

The only question is whether Republicans are going to stand up and jam down the throats of recalcitrant Democrats and this administration changes to this administration's policies that are undermining the American people and the American Dream.

That is the truth. That is the actual truth.

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