Virginia Foxx: “The final frontier of the woke mind virus is the banks and capitalism themselves. They have already tarnished America's…”

“The final frontier of the woke mind virus is the banks and capitalism themselves. They have already tarnished America's other institutions. Last week, House Republicans passed H.R. 5339, the Protecting Americans' Investments from Woke Policies Act, a bill that would confront and dispatch one of the most nefarious and hidden forms of wokeness: environmental, social, and governance investing, or ESG for short. In his book, ``Go Woke, Go Broke,'' author Charles Gasparino punctures the woke mind virus and ESG. Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the book review of ``Go Woke, Go Broke.'' [From the Wall Street Journal, Sept. 8, 2024] `Go Woke, Go Broke' Review: The Worst Investments (By Tunku Varadarajan) Charles Gasparino is a gladiatorial journalist. When he steps into the arena to fight a money-man or enterprise that he believes is anticapitalist or crooked, he can be brutal. Making an enemy of him is not for the faint-hearted: Watch him trade insults with his critics on social media. He was once a Wall Street reporter for this newspaper, where editors and colleagues remember him for his no-holds-barred style. Which is precisely how we'd describe the approach in ``Go Woke, Go Broke,'' Mr. Gasparino's blistering account of ``how corporate America became something close to a foot soldier in the progressive movement.'' Now a senior correspondent at the Fox Business Network, Mr.…”