A Christmas Hearing

Field Hearing on the Biden Administration’s Effects on Santa’s Toy Delivery

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chair Morgan Griffith (R-VA) today announced a field hearing on how the Biden Administration’s green agenda has affected Santa and Rudolph’s delivery of toys on December 22, 2023. The hearing will include a host of witnesses who are involved in the toy making and delivery process.

“The Oversight and Investigations Subcomittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee has been committed to examining the implementation of government programs and whether they have been successful,” said Chair Griffith. “This includes the new policies and regulations resulting from the Biden Administration’s rush to green energy and its consequences on not only Santa’s preparation for Christmas, but his journey around the world delivering gifts with Rudolph. I look forward to learning more from our witnesses during what I’m sure will be an exciting and informative hearing.”

Chair Griffith will be particularly interested in learning more about:

• Have there been any delays in getting materials to the North Pole via fossil fuel driven planes, trains, and automobiles, and therefore, in toy assembly at Santa’s workshop, given the restrictions on coal and oil by the Administration?
• How will Santa be able to deliver the toys to all of the little girls and boys once he is forced to purchase an electric sleigh, given reindeer will soon be banned as they are known producers of methane?
• Chair Griffith worries the cold weather and distance Santa must travel to deliver toys might significantly delay his overnight delivery as an electric sleigh is estimated to only get 150 miles in artic conditions and at the equator and 300 miles in between, coupled with a 1.5 hour charging time for the battery.
• How will Mrs. Claus continue to make her famous Christmas cookies once gas ovens are officially outlawed by the Administration? Further, Chair Griffith worries that some families won’t be able to make cookies for Santa’s visit if all of the Biden energy policies are put into place.

Subcommittee hearing titled “An Examination of the Biden Administration’s Green Policies and Their Effects on Santa’s Toy Delivery.”

WHAT: A field hearing to discuss how the Biden Administration’s green energy agenda has affected Santa and Rudolph’s delivery of toys

DATE: Friday, December 22, 2023

TIME: 8:00 PM ET

LOCATION: The North Pole

Alternative location: Santa’s Official Post Office in Rovaniemi, Finland

*For those last-minute package wrappers, red tape will be made available by the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services

WITNESSES:

Mrs. Clause, Wife, Santa Claus
Bernard, Head Elf, Santa’s Workshop
Rudolph, Lead Reindeer, Santa’s Sleigh (until electric sleighs are mandated)

Chair Griffith would like to note:

Santa Claus is unable to be with us for this hearing as he is busy ensuring that everything will be ready for Christmas. He would like us to share that, despite protests by the left, he will in fact be delivering Red Ryder BB guns to all the good children who request one, but warns them “not to shoot their eye out.”

All members of the Energy and Commerce Committee are welcome to attend. The hearing will be open to the public and press and will be live streamed online.

The Birth of Jesus

While it is fun to joke about the absurd consequences of Biden’s green energy policies, the reason for the Christmas season, for Christians like me, is the birth of Jesus Christ.

Two thousand years ago, when a young woman, Mary, and her husband, Joseph, were turned away from an inn, Mary was forced to give birth to a baby in a manger. That baby, Jesus, was born by immaculate conception. And as the son of God, Jesus was sent to Earth to save his people from their sins.

Jesus shared God’s message of forgiveness and grace to mankind. “God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life (John 3:16).”

Though not everyone celebrates Christmas and the birth of Jesus, the message of this season rings true through all communities and faiths. That message of forgiveness and grace, love and hope, is something I think we should all be reminded of a bit more frequently.

I wish everyone, whether you celebrate Christmas or not, peace during this holiday season.

And to echo Clement Moore in ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas: “Happy Christmas to All and to All a Good Night.”

If you have questions, concerns, or comments, feel free to contact my office. You can call my Abingdon office at 276-525-1405, my Christiansburg office at 540-381-5671, or my Washington office at 202-225-3861. To reach my office via email, please visit my website at www.morgangriffith.house.gov.

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*This will be my last column of 2023 and look forward to continuing them in the new year.