Steve Scalise

We ought to have a hearing to hold China accountable too.

If there's never been a better time to make the argument for school choice, for goodness' sake.

Don't use that as an excuse.

It is red tape being removed by the plan that President Trump has.

That decision saved lives. It was part of a plan.

You owe it to those kids. They're being denied that opportunity. Don't deny them.

I applaud Congressman Foster, who approached me as a physician and asked me to join a bipartisan partnering with the administration to assist in the execution of Operation Warp Speed's plan.

I wish those Governors would have followed the guidance that President Trump's team put out as part of a major overall plan.

Clearly, that is all part of what is laid out in CDC guidelines, in the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines.

There's money, by the way, still available at every state for sanitizer, for masks, for all the things you would need to safely reopen.

We hopefully will get into conversations about how costly it was, how many lives were lost because the Chinese Communist Party lied to the world.

The cure, Operation Warp Speed, is part of President Trump's national plan.

This is the definition of partisanship.

Targeting only Republican Governors when clearly 17 other states, many of whom are Democrat, are also experiencing the spikes and in the red zone shows this effort has nothing to do with getting answers and is, as the chairman has said in…

If all Governors would have followed those guidelines, thousands more seniors in nursing homes would be alive today.

Clearly, they're a threat that President Trump is taking on.

This isn't about transparency. It's about ridiculing four states, including my home state of Tennessee, and it distorts the truth.

I hope that these school systems follow President Trump and these great medical doctors' guidance and help those kids by safely reopening.

I wish we would have hearings on that, because that is a real fact. That's not a political talking point.

Nobody is stopping. Nobody is resting on their laurels.

If those five Governors who did not follow the Federal guidelines would've followed the Federal guidelines, again, as testimony under oath confirmed, thousands of deaths would not have happened.

Do you know how much child abuse will not be detected if children aren't returning to the school?

For anybody to suggest that there's not a plan--in fact, when you look at the title of today's hearing, 'Urgent Need for a Plan,' that's not the title of a hearing. That's a political narrative, and a false political narrative at that.

We mourn every loss. But let's also recognize the lives that would have been lost if you weren't on the job carrying out President Trump's plan.

It's really good guidance issued by some of the most recognized international experts on disease prevention.