Steve Scalise

The more we talk about the threat of COVID and onerously restrict people's lives because of it, the more we turn them against us and show them we're out of touch with their daily realities.

The American Academy of Pediatrics declared a national state of emergency in children's mental health.

Student learning loss due to remote or hybrid learning is astronomical.

Remote learning hurt children, both academically and emotionally.

A hearing on this topic is long overdue.

I am glad to hear the gentleman's update as well on the majority leader's health. We miss him here and look forward to seeing him back here. He has left things in very good hands with the majority whip, but we also look forward to the day…

Is there an expected date when that protocol will be released? Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman.

Hopefully those negotiations can escalate. As it relates to a few weeks from now, the State of the Union that was announced will be March 1, where President Biden will come here to this Chamber to give his annual State of the Union. We…

So we will determine whether or not that happens. If there is a date that the gentleman is aware of if there would be a short term--we would be interested in seeing that.

As it relates to the funding of government, February 18 is the current date of expiration for government funding. As the gentleman knows, we are not scheduled to be in that week, so next week would be the last week that the House is…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority whip the schedule for next week. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Clyburn), my friend, the House majority whip.

Frankly, it was Joe Biden and Kamala Harris as candidates for President and Vice President who tried to put doubt on when Donald Trump was heading up Operation Warp Speed.

I look forward to hearing from our witnesses.

I appreciate that. Maybe we can work on something that would ensure that as tax dollars are going to school systems that it is going to keep the schools open, not to allow them to then shut down on the kids because, as we know, the science…

On the school bill, I know one of the big concerns many people have been raising is trying to get schools open again. Last week it was reported that 5,200 different schools were closed last week. And I know this Congress has sent billions…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for next week. Madam Speaker, I yield to my friend, the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the majority leader of the House.

It`s potentially illegal what he`s doing.

Mo and Louie's comments, too, a lot of members have said some real concerning things. It's potentially illegal what he's doing.

Whether it`s anarchy or terrorism, they were trying to storm the Capitol and stop our democracy from working.

The President only talking about mandating vaccines or else somebody is going to get fired.

It seems like the Biden administration is really underplaying the importance of things like natural immunity.

The mandates have been thrown out by courts over and over again. We've had three different court cases on mandates.

Like on queue, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate that.

The emergency is over.

We should protect IP. We should contract with U.S. manufacturers and help distribute the vaccine to countries who need it.