Mariannette Miller-Meeks

More information is always better rather than trying to censor information that we do not particularly like.

Certainly, H.R. 5274 is a small step that we can take in managing the crisis at our southern border, in addition to emphasizing border security. I thank Representative Joyce for his very astute observation that our law enforcement is at…

I am a proud co-lead of the Safe Step Act along with my colleagues, Representative McBath on this committee, Dr. Wenstrup and Dr. Ruiz.

I would also like to thank my colleague, Representative Fulcher, for bringing up charter schools.

It does not sound like you have given me no, you know, confirmation that you would limit those that are not within low-income borrowers, so that is not very reassuring.

I think it is important that we identify who in fact holds all the debt.

I had two amendments of the time of that 14-hour markup that would allocate or appropriate 2 billion for mental health funding through K through 12 and 2 billion for mental health funding for higher education that was voted against by…

It is not going to go to regulatory and punitive measures, it is going to go to compliance and training.

The committee has a responsibility to ensure that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars... has been spent wisely.

Thank you, Chair Demings, and thank you Ranking Member Cammack. Thank you for our witnesses.

There was over $60 billion that was allocated to schools that was not spent

The pandemic was life versus life. It was never life versus the economy.

I would also like to take a minute to recognize the birthday of my nephews, Joseph and Matthew Martino. Happy birthday to Joseph and Matthew. ____________________

The broader the joint--anti-joint employment is anti-franchise and anti-small business.

I have heard of horror stories of children being smuggled, I have heard of the rape trees, I have heard of the cartels using children as pawns.

I find it interesting that despite these statements you still believe that lifting Title 42 is a good idea.

If a wall didn't work, Speaker Pelosi probably disagrees with you because we had a wall up around the Capitol for, I don't know, over 6 months or so.

0.00 percent to 0.02 percent of all COVID in children has resulted in death, but yet the learning loss is significant.

The American Academy of Pediatrics just published in March that 0.00 percent to 0.027 percent of all COVID-19 deaths in children.

You do not have any regrets that your agency and you did not show more courage in standing up for children.

In part because of the Biden administration's deference to the teacher's unions, the CDC's school reopening guidance suggested a far greater risk to reopening schools than actually existed.

As you can appreciate, and I have heard this from numerous entities, consistency in how the Federal Government responds to cyber incidents is of utmost important.

In the State of Iowa, we have had several municipalities who in fact were hacked and paid ransomware in order to get back their data.

None of us want our children, our young adults to, you know, attend college and fear for their safety

I also want to take this opportunity to wish my scheduler, Tara Pinette, a happy birthday. I also wish a very happy birthday to my chief of staff, Tracie Gibler. Later this month, my good friend Matt Leopold will celebrate his birthday…