On the recordFebruary 7, 2023
As we talk about following the science, I have to ask the question: France, Germany, Italy, Great Britain, they don't have a vaccine mandate for their visitors. Are they following the science? Are they in great peril? Back to the matter of public safety. I think it is very important to point out that in letters to the leadership of this great body, the National Fraternal Order of Police, a union representing the men and women of the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, they are proudly standing against the wrongheaded policies in the District of Columbia that overrode their Democratic Mayor's veto on this very legislation, as well as the D.C. Police Union itself in a letter to Speaker McCarthy doing the same. Are they wrong? I don't think so. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Mrs. Fischbach), my fellow Rules Committee member.
