Congressional Republicans ripped into President Joe Biden’s economic policies on March 10 stating they were the main cause of the 7.9 percent annual inflation rate announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). But Democrats pointed accusing fingers at Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The 7.9 percent annual inflation rate is the highest since 1982, with the energy figure zooming 25.6 percent and food prices showing the highest increase of any 12-month period since 1981, according to BLS. “I consider this a national emergency and I say that as the ranking Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee,” Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.) told reporters at the Senate Republican news conference. The Arkansas Republican showed reporters a chart of price increases in the four major agricultural factors that shape the cost of food to consumers and other products from February 2021 to last month. Boozman’s chart showed a 28 percent year-to-year increase in the …