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Congress can immediately combat the effects of inflation. Here’s how

By Wil Armstrong

Published January 12, 2023 11:08am ET

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Congress can immediately combat the effects of inflation. Here’s how — Home sale signs are posted along Topanga Canyon road in Los Angeles, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes in September fell for the fourth month in a row, grinding to their slowest pace in more than a decade as prospective homebuyers grapple with surging mortgage rates and a near historic-low level of properties on the market. | (Richard Vogel/AP)

Voters returned control of the House of Representatives to Republicans because they wanted change, not drama. They are suffering the worst inflation in 40 years, and the new leadership has a brief window of opportunity, perhaps only this one chance, to provide genuine relief on the most important problem facing America. That relief should begin with addressing inflation as the first item of business for the new Congress.

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