Mark Alford: “I thank the chairman for this opportunity. Mr. Speaker, in the words of Yogi Berra, this is like deja vu all over again.…”

“I thank the chairman for this opportunity. Mr. Speaker, in the words of Yogi Berra, this is like deja vu all over again. It was just last year that I was here in this very spot debating the ranking member over the evils of socialism, and now we have graduated to communism. I rise today, Mr. Speaker, in strong support of my colleague, Congresswoman Salazar's, bill, H.R. 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act. Communism has a dark and dangerous history of political violence, oppression, and abuse that continues to be swept under the rug by foreign actors infiltrating the American education systems. From the Soviet Union, Cuba, China, and beyond, communist regimes consistently demonstrate a callous disregard for human life and dignity. The Chinese Communist Party is actively trying to dismantle American classrooms and cover up the atrocities of past regimes in K-12 schools and college campuses. More than 500 K-12 schools across our Nation have allowed the CCP to creep into school hallways, making its way into our children's curriculums under the disguise of Confucius Classrooms. Make no mistake, Mr. Speaker. This is not education. This is indoctrination. Nearly one-fifth of the world's population is still under this oppressive system of government, yet our youth are being manipulated to blindly follow this corrosive influence of communism.…”