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On the recordNovember 17, 2021
Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I thank him for leading this Special Order tonight. Madam Speaker, the Biden administration's unprecedented OSHA vaccine mandate is a massive power grab. This national diktat was recently found likely to be unlawful by the Fifth Circuit and it stretches the power of the Federal Government beyond recognition. Requiring employers to be the vaccine and testing police and telling them who they can and cannot employ is a bridge too far. Further, this mandate will crush businesses with exorbitant costs while exacerbating the worker shortage. Why would the Biden administration make this crisis worse? It is clear that the Biden administration is using this pandemic as an excuse to inflate the power of the Federal Government as far as possible. That is what we must resist. To get our economy back on track, we don't need more crippling mandates and regulations, we need to support workers and job creators.
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Virginia Foxx
Republican · North Carolina

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