Congressional Record, House, January 20, 2022 — Let's Have a Debate
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This is H283 and H284 of the Congressional Record, House, January 20, 2022, with interleaved columns. The page begins with the end of a pro-life Special Order in which Mr. Smith of New Jersey yields to Mr. Fitzgerald, who speaks against abortion policies of the Biden administration and the Democratic majority, with the views attributed to the speakers. Under the heading Let's Have a Debate, the Chair recognizes Mr. Roy of Texas for 30 minutes. Mr. Roy says he will not allow a debate on crime on the floor, argues against the filibuster position of the Democratic majority and for voter ID, and criticizes vaccine requirements for restaurants near the Capitol, with the views attributed to Mr. Roy.
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January 20, 2022 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H283
right to life has been denied to more Government and the States-based suit almost a dozen states and waiting peri-
than 60 million unborn children. We have new authority to protect the ods in 26 states. By his words and his
don’t know what those children would weakest and the most vulnerable deeds, the President has become the
have grown up to do. Perhaps they among us. Protection for unborn chil- abortion President. I think he wants to
would have cured cancer, found a solu- dren is at a tipping point. In 2022, the own that.
tion to Alzheimer’s. The possibilities Supreme Court can begin dismantling Mr. Speaker, this all comes at a time
are endless with the loss of those lives. the culture of death that it has im- when ultrasound imaging has made un-
Mr. Speaker, I stand here today with posed on America. born babies more visible, with a great-
so many of my colleagues. We know Mr. Speaker, for decades and right up er clarity than ever before. Break-
that there is hope on the horizon. The to this very moment, abortion sup- through research has now found that
life movement is strong, and I look for- porters have gone through extraor- unborn children can feel pain at a ges-
ward to continuing to advocate on be- dinary lengths to ignore, to trivialize, tational age of 15 weeks and maybe
half of pro-life policies. It is my hope and to cover up the battered baby vic- earlier.
that one day those unalienable rights tim. With stolid resolve, they defend b 1345
will extend to all Americans born and the indefensible.
unborn. It is my prayer that this will Why does dismembering a child with Today modern medicine treats an
be the last march for life with Roe v. sharp knives, pulverizing a child with ever-increasing number of unborn chil-
Wade being the law of the land. When powerful suction devices, chemically dren with disability and disease as pa-
we march next year, it will be in cele- poisoning a baby with any number of tients in need of diagnosis and life-en-
bration for what we have accomplished toxic chemicals—one method hancing treatments before birth. Un-
for the protection of the unborn. euphemistically called medical abor- born babies are society’s youngest pa-
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. tion—why does all of this fail to elicit tients and deserve protection, not
Speaker, I now yield to the gentleman so much as a scintilla of empathy, death by abortion. Science informs us
from Wisconsin (Mr. FITZGERALD), a mercy, or compassion from the so- that birth is merely an event—albeit a
good friend and colleague. called pro-choice crowd? very important one—in the life of the
Mr. FITZGERALD. Mr. Speaker, I Have the physical and emotional con- child. It is not the beginning of his or
rise today in defense of life. sequences of women been under- her life.
This Saturday, as many of the pre- reported? You bet they have. I have As most people know, after the
vious speakers had alluded to, is the been in the pro-life movement for al- ultrasound the grandparents, the par-
49th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. As most 50 years. Both my wife, Marie, ents, and the friends get pictures of the
such, it is a fitting time to talk about and I do work with a lot of women who child in utero. The ultrasound pictures
this administration’s radical anti-life have had abortions. They tell us stories are the first baby pictures that are now
policies for which some of us were of agony that, just like the fact of the plastered on all of our refrigerators in
caught off guard when President Biden unborn child’s worth and dignity, has great expectation for that event called
was running for the Presidency. been trivialized by the other side of birth.
Over the past year we have watched this issue. The right to life is the first human
President Biden and the Democrats Mr. Speaker, why are children born right, and it must be guaranteed to ev-
continually push what I would consider alive during some late-term abortions eryone regardless of race, age, sex, dis-
an anti-life full agenda. First, they not given the same standard of care ability, stage of development, or condi-
gutted the Hyde amendment, a long- and respect as premature infants born tion of dependency. Life is not just for
standing provision of appropriations at that very same age? They are left to the planned, the privileged, or the per-
bills that prevents taxpayer funding for die, or they are just killed after they fect.
abortions and has saved an estimated 2 are born. We need to protect these innocent
million lives. President Biden understands the children.
Then the Biden Administration’s De- gruesome reality of abortion and this Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance
partment of Health and Human Serv- injustice. At least he once did. As Sen- of my time.
ices changed the rules to essentially re- ator Biden wrote to constituents in ex- f
quire healthcare providers to perform plaining his support for the Hyde
LET’S HAVE A DEBATE
abortions, despite any moral objections amendment, for example, prohibiting
they may have. taxpayer funding for elective abor- The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under
Finally, my Democrat colleagues tions, he said it would protect both the the Speaker’s announced policy of Jan-
passed a radical bill that removes ex- woman and her unborn child. He stated uary 4, 2021, the Chair recognizes the
isting limits on abortion and allows at the time he had consistently, on no gentleman from Texas (Mr. ROY) for 30
abortions on demand, no matter the fewer than 50 occasions, voted against minutes.
age of the fetus. Federal funding of abortions. Further, Mr. ROY. Mr. Speaker, I want to
Mr. Speaker, I will always push back those of us who are opposed to abortion commend my colleagues who have been
on their anti-life stances with a clear should not be compelled to pay for down here on the floor of the House of
and strong message of full opposition. I them. Representatives for the most part of
believe that every human life is pre- Today, the President has weaponized the last hour talking about the impor-
cious and should be protected at every the entire Federal bureaucracy to ag- tance of defending life, those infa-
stage. Throughout my career, I have gressively promote abortion on demand mous—or famous or important words, I
always stood for life. I will continue to at home and overseas, including full should say, in the Declaration of Inde-
fight against this administration’s court press to force taxpayers to fund pendence: life, liberty, and the pursuit
anti-life policies. abortions on demand including the re- of happiness.
Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. peal of the Hyde amendment. Nothing can be more important than
Speaker, today, after decades of noble Last September, the House passed a this body focusing on defending life,
struggle and sacrifice, pro-life Ameri- bill, the abortion on demand until liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;
cans are hopeful that government-sanc- birth act. Of course, it had a different and my colleagues’ focus on life, as we
tioned violence against children and name that just cloaked the misery that sit here now 49 years removed from a
the exploitation of women by abortion it would impose. That bill would not Supreme Court decision taking out of
may be nearing an end, although in a only codify late-term abortions, it the hands of the people and putting it
very real way the struggle to defend in- would also nullify nearly every modest into the hands of unelected judges’ de-
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nocent human life now enters a criti- pro-life restriction ever enacted by the cisions, about the beginning of life,
cally important new phase. States including a woman’s right to when life begins, the important reality
Because of the Dobbs case, because know laws in 35 states, parental in- of a people defending life.
the Supreme Court has finally seem- volvement statutes in 37 states, pain- What is controversial about defend-
ingly accepted a relook at Roe v. Wade capable unborn child protection laws in ing life?
and subsequent decisions, the Federal 19 states, sex-election abortion bans in It is a question for this body.
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What is controversial about defend- Are we able to do that better more the floor right now and have a debate
ing life when we talk about life, lib- than 1 year ago? about crime in the United States?
erty, and the pursuit of happiness and The answer very clearly to all of Do they?
when we talk about living on this those questions is a resounding ‘‘no.’’ Do you think a 50 percent increase in
Earth while God gives us the precious Do you think it is an accident that I crime in Austin, a 50 percent increase
time we have here? just spent 2 hours in a hearing in the in crime in San Antonio, a 19-year-old
What are we going to do with that Judiciary Committee bemoaning the woman shot in a Burger King in New
time? United States Senate for holding the York City, a 24-year-old student mur-
Are we going to live free? line on the filibuster which Democrats dered walking the streets of Los Ange-
Are we going to be able to pursue and this President wanted to throw les, train robberies in 21st century
happiness? over the wall in the name of voting America with litter all over the tracks
Life, liberty, and the pursuit of hap- rights because nobody can oppose in Los Angeles, is an accident?
piness: one might wonder here now 1 something called voting rights? Or could it be that radical leftists
year into the current administration, They put up those words, they call it who are funded to take over the dis-
the Biden administration, whether the the Voting Rights Act, and they name trict attorneys’ offices in cities across
average American would say that he or it after people we serve with in the America and radical city councils like
she is free to pursue happiness. Chamber to provide maximum guilt if the Austin City Council and leftists in
Are we free? you dare stand up and say, Mr. Speak- this Chamber believe that letting
Are we free to pursue happiness er, that the people in the States ought criminals out on the streets and be-
when, in fact, just a few miles away— to be able to decide how to ensure that lieve in not prosecuting people is going
and, frankly, a few thousand feet—from the elections of the people who rep- to make our country safer?
this Chamber where we are right now, resent them are secure; that you dare It is empirically and obviously un-
restaurants are being chastised and to have a voter ID favored by 80 per- true.
pursued by the Government of the Dis- cent of the American people. The American people see it. And I
trict of Columbia representing this But yet let’s go back to what I just promise you, Mr. Speaker, take this
area that forms our Nation’s Capitol said: I have to have an ID just to walk bet: We will not have a debate on the
because those restaurants may not be- in and buy a hamburger in the Nation’s floor of this body about crime while I
lieve that it is in their interest or the Capitol, but I cannot have an ID to am here this year. It will not happen.
interest of the people whom they serve vote. No. No. No. That is Jim Crow 2.0 My Democratic colleagues would not
to be checking papers and to be check- I am told by my colleagues on the dare have a debate about crime because
ing so-called vaccine passports or vac- other side of the aisle. they would get absolutely decimated.
cine passes? I actually had colleagues on the com- They sure as heck do not want to
One restaurant in particular over on mittee today walking through the hor- have a debate about the border.
H Street—which was one of the early rors of the poll tax—the jelly bean Do you want to talk about 2 million
restaurants on H Street as it was revi- counting and all of the obstructions apprehensions?
talizing—has been fined, berated, and put into place for voting in the 1950s Do you want to talk about 1 million
harassed by the Government of the Dis- and 1960s that the Voting Rights Act people released?
trict of Columbia for wanting its doors nobly pursued to correct—and then Do you want to talk about dead Tex-
to be open and not wanting to harass tried to compare that to voter identi- ans?
its patrons. They want them to use fication. Do you want to talk about fentanyl
their own free will to make a decision They tried to compare that to want- pouring into our communities, 100,000
about what is in their interest. They ing to make sure that mail-in ballots dead Americans, opioid poisonings of
don’t want to live in a republic where aren’t abused by anybody in any party, our youth, and kids taking Xanax and
you are forced to show papers to walk even though, by the way, those bas- dying because cartels are flooding into
about and to engage in society, to free- tions of crazy conservatism, Jimmy our country while China drives them
ly move about and engage in com- Carter and James Baker, came out in a right up through Mexico?
merce. report over a decade ago that The New Not a person in this Chamber on the
The very heart of the kinds of ideas York Times quoted saying precisely other side of the aisle wants to come to
that the Founders meant and what Jef- that mail-in ballots are the area where the floor and have an adult debate
ferson meant when he penned pursuit you have the most fraud. about why our country is much less se-
of happiness is that we not allow a gov- Now, all of us want to have integrity cure and much more endangered at the
ernment through tyrannical policies to and belief in our elections. But our hands of the cartels and of people mak-
interfere with our pursuit of happiness: Democratic colleagues want to use ing money trafficking in human beings
our ability to go have a business, our that issue to divide us, as President and undermining our security and safe-
ability to go out and take care of our Biden literally admitted yesterday. In ty in the United States of America.
family, our ability to move about and his 1-hour marathon wandering, mean- I promise you, Mr. Speaker, Joe
to engage in commerce, our ability to dering press conference, he literally Biden and the NANCY PELOSI Democrats
create wealth and opportunity for our said that he could not say whether the have no interest in having a debate
children and our grandchildren, to be elections will be legitimate this fall about the border because it is an em-
able to get healthcare, and to be able unless—unless—we embrace the legis- barrassment and it is a travesty.
to be secure in our possessions, secure lation that he says must get passed and Ranches are getting overrun, people
in our belongings, and secure in our that we must set aside the traditions of are dying, bullets are being fired across
own homes. the Senate to jam it through. And all at our own Border Patrol, the National
I would ask this question: Is the of it, very clearly, is to set the stage Guard is having to fire at cars coming
United States more secure than it was for a lack of faith and belief in the across the border, livestock is getting
1 year ago? elections that are coming this Novem- out, bodies are stacking up in body
Is the United States stronger eco- ber. trailers in Brooks County, Texas, and
nomically than it was 1 year ago? Again I ask: Is America stronger or cartels are making hundreds of mil-
Is the United States stronger on the weaker? lions of dollars on a daily basis driving
world stage? Is it richer or poorer? More secure or fentanyl into our kids’ communities
Are we safer from our enemies than less safe? and schools.
we were 1 year ago? We know the answer, and that is why No, no, no. We do not want to have a
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Is our border secure? my colleagues on the other side of the debate about the state of our border.
Are we able to afford energy and have aisle wish not to talk about those Do we want to have a debate about
reliable energy to heat our homes, fuel issues. We don’t want to have a debate the state of healthcare mandates?
our cars, provide jobs, and keep us about crime on the floor. No. No. This body has no debate but
warm in the winter and cool in the Do any of my colleagues on the other embraces rules. We must wear masks,
summer? side of the aisle want to come down to they say. For a year and a half we have
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been excoriated—even fined—if you ally have a discussion, throw things les, New York, Austin, San Antonio,
don’t wear a mask the floor of the out there and then vote. Maybe, just and Chicago?
House of Representatives—masks maybe, we come to some bipartisan Will he talk about the businesses get-
which are very clearly proven—fabric agreement. ting crippled by mask mandates and
masks—to have no real discernible ben- I am happy to work with my col- health mandates?
efit over the last year and a half of the leagues on the other side of the aisle. Will he talk about the children who
mandates that say you must wear a DEAN PHILLIPS and I worked on the are now having mental health issues,
face covering. PPP Flexibility Act. ABIGAIL the people who are sick; the diseases
They said: Well, are we going to man- SPANBERGER and I have introduced leg- that weren’t dealt with, all to push a
date N95s? islation called the TRUST Act to deal vaccine mandate that goes contrary to
Are we going to have to wear N95s on with stock trading believing that the pursuit of happiness and our right
the floor? might help improve people’s faith and as Americans to live free?
Do they want to talk about the nega- confidence in this body. I have intro- Will he talk about any of those
tive effects in the study that wearing duced numerous bills and passed nu- things? Will he talk about the fact that
N95s for a prolonged period of time, merous bills with my colleagues on the the United States of America is sitting
what that does for people’s health and other side of the aisle. That is not what on one of the world’s largest reservoirs
well-being, breathing carbon dioxide, this is about. of energy and, yet, we are wondering
minimizing your cognitive ability if It is about a broken body refusing to even in Texas whether you can have
you wear N95s for a long time? actually debate, refusing to actually the lights on because we built no nu-
Some people might joke: Would it engage, refusing to offer amendments. clear power plants.
make any difference on the floor of the Both sides do it. That needs to end. We slowed down our production of
House if you minimized the cognitive The last point that I will make on clean burning natural gas, all chasing
ability of the Members of the House? that point, if you want this body to unicorn energy policies of wind and
You could argue that it may not make function again, you have to stop spend- solar as if they can possibly, possibly
any difference whatsoever. I am look- ing money we don’t have. If you keep power the world at the level that is
ing in the mirror myself. writing blank checks, how on Earth is needed for the proper amount of human
We do not want to have a debate on there a check against the wisdom of flourishing while 3 billion people
the floor of the House on anything, by the policy? You just keep writing a around this planet do not have access
the way, much less the reality of what check to keep doing the same thing or to abundant energy and power.
has been happening with respect to this to do something different. You can’t Will the President of the United
virus and our response to it; and what run a business that way. You can’t run States come down here and talk about
Anthony Fauci engaged in with respect a home that way. You can’t run a that or will he get up there and just
to the reality of the truth of funding church that way. You can’t run a le- talk about: Well, we are going to be net
gain-of-function research knowing full gitimate school that way. But no, no, zero in our carbon production by 2035,
well the dangers, working to cover that we just keep writing checks to fund the or 2050, or make up some totally arbi-
up and hide from the American people expansion of government, to fund the trary number without regard at all to
how this virus came about; not want- creation of programs no matter who is what that does to the price of energy
ing to pursue the truth on that, not in power. and the availability and abundance of
wanting to pursue the truth or conduct Over the last year, we have seen what energy.
studies on natural immunity. that causes when it is then left in the All of this has real-life consequences
We have study after study after study hands of an administration that lit- for Americans. People die. Houses get
coming out right now. I could pull out erally does not care about the rule of cold. People can’t get access to energy.
on my phone and pull up study after law. They can’t afford energy. They lose
study now finally demonstrating and To be very clear, this administration jobs. You have stagnation and then you
showing how natural immunity is more is ignoring the rule of law, ignoring have the brilliance of this administra-
powerful than vaccinations, and people their oath, ignoring their duty to en- tion and the brilliance of those in the
don’t want to be able to have that hon- force the laws of the United States, ig- media starting to talk about energy
est conversation. noring their duty to secure the border, and food price control because, of
ignoring their duty to stand up in de- course, that is what my colleagues on
b 1400 the other side of the aisle will resort
fense of the men and women in blue, to
An adult leadership would have done follow the laws around the United to.
like the Nation of Japan saying: We be- States, ignoring their oath to stand up They will sit there and bemoan mar-
lieve that vaccines are effective for a and defend the United States against kets when they don’t let the markets
large group of people. We believe that our foreign enemies; hold the line work. Healthcare markets never work.
there are some risks. You are adults. against Russia; push back on Russia; We haven’t had a healthcare market in
We won’t mandate. You decide. sanction them; hold the line on Nord decades. It is an absolute lie; and I am
We can’t do that in the supposed land Stream 2; stand alongside Ukraine; looking at you Big Healthcare. I am
of the free? We sit up here and we stare push back on China; stop appeasing looking at you Big Pharma. I am look-
at that American flag and we talk them. ing at you hospitals. I am looking at
about the Senate being the greatest de- Don’t leave $85 billion sitting there you Big Insurance. You made out like
liberative body. They don’t really de- in the hands of terrorists when we walk bandits after ObamaCare. You minted
bate. This being the people’s House, the away and abandon our duty and leave money. And probably three-quarters of
people’s Chamber, when was the last those men and women in the field, and the people in this Chamber fattened
time the Speaker heard a robust debate then have 13 dead marines to show for their wallets and their portfolios riding
on the floor of the House with multiple it. the back of all of that Big Healthcare
Members? That is the legacy of the first year of enrichment, all at the expense of poor
When was the last time we offered an this administration. But will President Americans around this country trying
amendment on the floor of the House Biden, when he strolls to that podium to get access to a doctor without hav-
in open debate that wasn’t predeter- on March 1 for his so-called State of ing to call some bureaucrat in the gov-
mined by all of the Rules Committee the Union, and we are all spread out, ernment, the VA, or an insurance com-
overlords who govern our lives? Demo- and all wearing masks, and doing what- pany, or however it may be, but it sure
crat and Republican, I do want to say. ever the heck we are going to do—not as heck isn’t their doctor.
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Mr. Speaker, it has been 6 years since actually doing the people’s business— We don’t have health freedom in this
we have had an amendment offered on will he address any of those issues? country. We have mandated Big
the floor of the House in open debate. Will he talk about border security? Healthcare, Big Government, Big In-
Do you want to know why we can’t do Will he talk about how we are weaker surance, bureaucracy. And everybody
anything in this Chamber? Because we around the world? Will he talk about knows it. Everybody knows it because
don’t ever debate. We don’t ever actu- the crime on the streets of Los Ange- you all had to deal with it. You have
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had to call somebody. You had to call Constitution and limited government the truth. Talk to the migrants getting
some kid sitting in Omaha in some and freedom to be able to protect our abused. Talk to the people in south
phone bank telling you which doctor families and protect our States when Texas. Go to Laredo and Webb County.
you can go to 2,000 miles away. That is this administration is letting this Sit down with the Brown people in La-
the truth, and we all know it. We sit in country burn. redo who will say: We are pretty ticked
here, we roll in here and we say: Let’s It dares to do an hour-long press con- off with this administration about how
spend more money and create a govern- ference, lecturing the people for want- they are handling the border.
ment program. Let’s spend more ing to make sure their elections are se- My colleagues on the other side of
money we don’t have. cure, for daring to say that we should the aisle might be up for a rude awak-
Not one person in this body will come have voter identification when that ening pretty soon about their expecta-
down here and truly debate any of same administration is ordering vac- tions of what voters are voting for
these truths when you are $30 trillion cine mandates that are causing them and what voters are not because
in debt; when you are funding the very healthcare workers to lose their jobs; there are a lot of people in this country
FBI going after parents for daring to causing healthcare workers in long- that are sick and tired of the elite in
stand up and defend their children in a term health facilities to be unable to this town, immersed in the swamp, pro-
school board meeting; when you are carry out their jobs. moting Big Healthcare, promoting Big
funding the Department of Homeland And then there is the talk about, oh, Tech, promoting Big Government,
Security that is literally lying to the the burden on hospitals. Well, you just minimizing the rights and the abilities
American people saying our border is caused 20 percent of nurses to have to of Americans to live their lives the way
secure while hundreds of thousands of leave because you were mandating they they see fit.
people come across. take a jab for something that is a year That is our calling as we head to 2026,
You want to know what happened in old that Pfizer is making billions of our 250th birthday of the United States
that synagogue? Because we don’t have dollars on. Then we won’t even have a of America, which comes up in 4-and-a-
a dang clue who is coming to the hearing about why on Earth we are half years. Will we be able to say that
United States, and this administration having this virus in the first place, be- we live in the land of the free? Will we
doesn’t care. They don’t care. They cause of what Anthony Fauci knew and be able to say that we are pursuing
don’t care what list they are on. They what NIH was up to and what China happiness; that we are the country of
don’t care whether they pose a danger was up to. life, liberty, and the pursuit of happi-
to the United States of America. They We won’t have a hearing about nat- ness?
don’t care at all who is coming into ural immunity. We won’t have a hear- We will only be able to do that if we
this country. And they sure as heck ing about the dangers and levels of stand up and secure our Nation’s sov-
don’t care what is happening to the dangers of the vaccines, what they may ereignty, defend our streets, protect
people of Texas, Arizona, or, frankly, be. Again, my polio-stricken father our families, stand up to enemies
everybody around this country who is who is 79 has been vaccinated. I refuse around the world, and limit this body
having to bear the cost, who is having to say whether I have been vaccinated. to the job that it was given in the Con-
to bear the burden of what wide-open I think it is a principle for Americans stitution: limit our spending to the
borders means to the United States of that they shouldn’t have to say. dollars that we have and responsibly
America. My point is, there are people for lead this country and represent the
Complain about Mayorkas? We whom the vaccine makes sense. There people so that this country can, in fact,
should impeach him for failing to are people for whom the vaccine does be great in our agreements and our dis-
faithfully execute the laws of the not make sense. Mandating a jab in a 5- agreements in a Federalist Republic
United States of America, endangering year-old is irresponsible and it is dan- where we are able to live free.
Americans in the process, ignoring the gerous. We should have that conversa- Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance
laws of the United States. And that is tion instead of blindly walking around of my time.
what is happening. That is what is hap- preaching what other people should
f
pening. stick in their dang arm.
America is poorer, sicker, and less But that is what we do in the people’s SENATE ENROLLED BILLS SIGNED
safe a year into the Biden administra- House. I am sitting here in an empty The Speaker announced her signa-
tion, and that is the truth. Our enemies Chamber—with the Speaker, respect- ture to enrolled bills of the Senate of
know it. That is why Russia is going fully—and that is it. They are all jet- the following titles:
after Ukraine. That is why China is fumed out, leaving town. Oh, we shut
S. 452.—An act to award a Congressional
rattling on a daily basis. That is why down earlier. Let’s get out of here. Or Gold Medal to Willie O’Ree, in recognition of
Russia, China, and Iran are talking they are out at some fundraiser or his extraordinary contributions and commit-
about joint exercises. That is why the something. ment to hockey, inclusion, and recreational
cartels are emboldened. That is why Let’s have a debate on these issues. opportunity.
there are people marching through Let’s seek the truth. I don’t know all of S. 2959.—An act to provide that, due to the
Mexico from all over the world coming the truth on all of those issues. I don’t disruptions caused by COVID–19, applica-
to our southern border. That is why know the specific risks. I have read a tions for impact aid funding for fiscal year
there are people on the streets break- lot about what is going on with the 2023 may use certain data submitted in the
fiscal year 2022 application.
ing into businesses, assaulting people vaccines, positive and negative. But it
on the streets and killing them, raping is becoming very, very clear that it f
them. It is happening every single day doesn’t do squat to stop the spread. So ADJOURNMENT
in the United States of America with you are left basically saying: Well, it is
reckless abandon while Democrats in better for you so that you don’t die in The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu-
district attorney’s offices, Democrats the hospital. ant to section 11(b) of House Resolu-
in the House of Representatives, Demo- Well, let’s look at the data on that. tion 188, the House stands adjourned
crats in this administration do nothing But why don’t we just present the in- until 9 a.m. tomorrow.
about it and do not care that the Amer- formation and let the American people Thereupon (at 2 o’clock and 14 min-
ican people are left holding the bag. decide? Japan’s vaccine rate is a lot utes p.m.), under its previous order, the
Then they want to talk about taking higher than ours and ours has man- House adjourned until tomorrow, Fri-
away our Second Amendment rights dates. All they did was say: We think it day, January 21, 2022, at 9 a.m.
and our ability to defend ourselves. is good. There are some risks. You de- f
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Well, that crap ain’t going to happen cide. We can’t do that in America?
because we are going to defend our- We can’t just go down to the border EXECUTIVE COMMUNICATIONS,
selves in the land of the free. We are and say: You know what, it is better ETC.
going to stand up and defend our com- for migrants, better for Texans and all Under clause 2 of rule XIV, executive
munities and defend our families. We Americans, bad for cartels, bad for communications were taken from the
are going to stand up in defense of the China, if we secure our border. That is Speaker’s table and referred as follows:
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