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When Porter gave an emotional speech about how inflation has been hitting her family for months during a private House Democratic Caucus meeting last week, she said it seemed like the first time the personal toll of high consumer prices had sunk in for some lawmakers in the room.

“Too often, Congress recognizes issues too late,” Porter, a top GOP target this fall in a swing district, said in an interview. “I had a colleague mention to me, ‘We’re not seeing it in the polls’ … Well, you don’t know what to ask.”

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Democrats have worked feverishly on more plans to tackle record price hikes: Speaker Nancy Pelosi is pushing to vote on a gas-prices package before Memorial Day. Members are holding town halls to tout their work on a manufacturing bill to help supply chain snags. State officials have proposed rebate checks for gas and slashing grocery taxes.

Wow this is so Important and meanginful, look at these congresspeople caring about the plight of the little people about their increasing grocery bills WHERE IS THE MENTION OF FUCKING RENT MOTHERFUCKERS SO I CAN HAVE A FUCKING PLACE TO LIVE GROCERY BILLS ARE A FUCKING MINISCULE PART OF MY EXPENSES COMPARED TO FUCKING RENT