As you said, we have four bills for your attention today.
These are bills that have been passed by Congress.
In the closing days of the Biden administration, they pushed through a large number of rules and regulations that really hurt ordinary Americans, including in their own homes.
So the first of these is HJR 20.
This is a bill that repeals Biden-era regulations relating to consumer water heaters, consumer gas-fired water heaters.
Gary Palmer sponsored it, but this bill specifically saves a factory in my district.
300 Georgians will continue to have their jobs as soon as you sign that.
Mr. President, this rule was issued on Christmas Eve, thinking that we wouldn't be keeping up with what the Biden administration was doing, but we moved quickly to get some of the things that we had.
In other words, they made the restrictions so strong that it didn't work.
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And it was going to cost them so much money to actually meet the energy efficiency standards, which didn't really save much money.
So this is going to actually help our small businesses across the country, Mr. President.
Go ahead.
Many manufacturers would have had to close stop lines, shut down entire lines of businesses.
And I just want to say, rescinding these, this was done days before, days before you took office.
They pushed through these regulations.
They didn't think about the cost to businesses.
They didn't put American interest first.
They didn't put American businesses first.
I am so grateful we finally have a president who's not only walking back these insane, burdensome regulations that are ultimately going to cost us Americans and American businesses, but that you are thinking about the next generation.
And as we're leading into Mother's Day, some of us are trying to parent and serve this country at the same time.
Thank you for welcoming my son, who's 15 with his mother serving, watching what we're doing for him and the generations to come.
Okay, well, next, sir, this is House Joint Resolution 42.
Again, this is a rescission of a Biden-era regulation, in this case relating to energy conservation standards for household appliances and certain consumer products.
Look, this is helping fight inflation because the cost of the burden on appliance manufacturers is going to drive up the cost of them producing household products, which means that when you go buy a washer, dryer, any appliance, it was going to drive up the cost for consumers.
It reduces consumer choice.
But in the bottom line, we've been trying to fight inflation.
This fights inflation.
This helps takes the cost out of producing these products that Americans need every day.
And when you think, when you add all this up, it's one regulation here, one regulation there.
They always say it's de minimis, but when you add it all up, it costs a lot to American consumers, and this is fighting back.
And lastly, sir, we have House Joint Resolution 75.
Again, this is a rescission of a Biden-era regulation, in this case relating to energy standards for commercial refrigerators, freezers, and refrigerator freezers.
And then on the salt tax credits, Mr. President, there are some Republicans who say, why is it that these 45 other states should be paying taxes to alleviate the tax burden of New York or?
It's only because those states are behind, very badly behind, and those people were affected very badly.
And, you know, the sad part is oftentimes they were affected badly because you had bad management in those states, like in California with Newsom, and, you know, people.
So you had some bad management.
But that's being worked on now.
They may do a piece one way or the other.
It's a very complex issue, but I think it's being worked out.
I think it's going to be worked.
It has not been settled yet, but they'll settle it up pretty quickly.
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Are you considering that?
What parameters have you given Scott Besson on negotiating with China this weekend?
You know, we lost $1 trillion last year with China, $1 trillion.
So if you're not going to do business with them, you're not going to lose $1 trillion.
But we lost.
I just want, I want China to do great, you know.
I'm very friendly with President Xi.
I have great respect for him and for China.
But we can't continue to allow them to do what they did.
When I was president, they paid hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and taxes.
And then Biden screwed it all up.
What he did to this country between the border and between all of the other problems, the wars, everything, what he did to this country should never be forgotten.
But one of the things he did is the trade was so bad and so imbalanced.
So I think we're going to come back with a fair deal for both China and us.
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Mr. Have you made it that a number of how low you're willing to go?
Former Supreme Court Justice David Souter has died at the age of 85.
He served on the nation's highest court from 1990 until 2009.
On Friday morning, the Supreme Court released a statement saying that Justice Souter died peacefully yesterday at his home in New Hampshire.
In the statement, Chief Justice John Roberts said of the late Associate Justice, quote, he brought uncommon wisdom and kindness to a lifetime of public service.
After retiring to his beloved New Hampshire in 2009, he continued to render significant service to our branch by sitting regularly on the Court of Appeals for the First Circuit for more than a decade.
He will be greatly missed.
Justice Souter was nominated by former President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and was later confirmed by the Senate by a vote of 90 to 9.
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