WASHINGTON, Oct. 14 -- The House Ways & Means Committee Chairman issued the following news release:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith (MO-08) issued the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) released the Consumer Price Index (CPI) report for September 2026:
"Every family that has stood at the gas pump or in the grocery line knows prices are still too high. That pain traces back to Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats, whose $10 trillion spending spree when they had full control of the White House, House, and Senate sent our country into a cost-of-living crisis - the impact of which Americans are still feeling today. Core inflation was at 2.6 percent in September, less than half its ...