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Today, we will discuss legislation introduced by Representative Courtney that requires OSHA to quickly issue a workplace violence prevention standard to protect health care and social service workers.

We cannot hope to learn from the lessons of this pandemic without the data to understand how to protect workers in the future.

We must also take clear steps to keep track of workplace infections.

Now we have the opportunity to restore OSHA's mission and protect workers health and safety at a time when they need it most.

Any discussion about protecting healthcare workers must also address the disproportionately high rates of violence that healthcare and social service workers face on the job.

We must also take clear steps to track workplace COVID-19 infections.

These tragic losses are even more heartbreaking considering that until recently the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, was missing in action.

I want to express our condolences for your loss and appreciation for the critical work for which Miss Yap-Banago gave her life.

These workers who are disproportionately low-income and people of color are risking their lives to keep our communities afloat.

The COVID-19 pandemic has posed one of the most significant threats to worker's health and safety in a century.

I want to welcome everyone to the first hearing of the Work Force Protection Subcommittee and the 117th Congress.

I'm a strong proponent of evidence-based policymaking.

I am using my inside voice. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Arizona (Mrs. Lesko).

We know that hyperbole is the strong suit of Democrats, but how anyone can say that giving freedom to workers to join or not join a union is trampling the rights of workers takes hyperbole to new heights. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to…

The Democrats continue to look backward, 100 years backward. Just before COVID hit, we had the greatest economy in our country ever, the lowest unemployment for women, minorities, everyone, without the PRO Act. No procapitalist can support…

I want to thank you, in the time that we have worked together, since I have been on this Committee.

Submitted for the Record by Hon. David Rouzer

Racism is real. We all know that the way to fix a problem is to acknowledge it, to understand it, to address it.