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But the Congressional Budget Office said almost none of this money will play any role in reopening schools.

Mr. Chairman it's our job to point out when the education is failing our children, especially our most vulnerable children.

It baffles me that the response from our friends on the other side of the aisle seem to be that we're being too mean or unfair to teachers unions.

Many people in the blue states are leaving because they want their kids to go to school and have a normal life.

There's a difference in the teachers that love their profession... and those that are leading these unions that obviously have a different agenda.

The Biden administration has relied too much on the desire of the teachers unions, causing unnecessary, prolonged closures that continue to inflict real harm on children lacking a home or stable family life.

House Republicans will not stop fighting to reopen schools across this country until every one of them has unlocked their doors.

This wasted time is causing irreparable damage to millions of students nationwide.

This is a travesty my friends, and there's a difference.

The most frustrating part of this situation is that the research demonstrates, and has demonstrated for months, that school age children are less likely to transmit the virus to others, including adults.

For these children school is so much more than a place to learn.

For over a year students across our country have been negatively impacted by school closures.

I would think that, as we think about the policies that we want to have with regards to childrearing, that we would give authority to the parents to make that decision as opposed to an administration to make it for them.

A number of Republicans said--Senator Rubio and myself and others have introduced legislation that would provide for paid maternity leave, but do so without imposing new costs on taxpayers or employers.

I think there is an urgent need to rethink our immigration system.

Do you have plans to do something dramatically different such that those numbers come down to an acceptable level?

I mean, do you recognize this as an alarming crisis?

We have challenges here we cannot solve that we have been working on for years.