Political Quotes

“I thank Chairwoman Foxx for yielding, and I thank my Republican colleagues for taking up this very important bill. Mr. Chair, there has been a push by powerful teachers' unions, leftwing politicians, and, most concerning, the Biden Justice Department to silence parents throughout our country. The Biden administration used the FBI--the most powerful law enforcement agency in the world--to intimidate parents for showing up to school board meetings to oppose Biden's radical agenda. Parents' rights are nonnegotiable. Parents are the decisionmakers for their child's education, which includes their child's curriculum. Parents want schools focused on reading, writing, and math, not woke politics. The radical left in our country seeks to silence parents and use public schools and colleges to indoctrinate our youth. They don't want to teach children how to think. They want to teach them what to think. I am grateful that several of my bills are included in the Parents Bill of Rights Act to protect children from radical gender ideology and to ensure parents are informed when information is being collected about their children through surveys or documents. Parents have the right to know what is being taught to their child, and they have the right to opt their child out of any discussion about sexual orientation and gender ideology. Mr. Chair, I am proud House Republicans are keeping our commitment to fight for parental rights, and I urge my colleagues to vote ``yes.''”