Jim Clyburn

The administration's inexcusable failure to get the virus under control for the last six months

The President's public health advisors have made clear that reopening schools is especially risky in communities where the coronavirus is spreading at a high rate.

We can recover a child's lost education, but we cannot recover a life.

We must learn from these mistakes, not repeat them. Our children's futures are at stake.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

The Trump administration must put aside partisan concerns and work with public health and medical science experts.

I'm kind of troubled that the administration would hide this from us.

I suspect that the protesters that my friend Mr. Jordan seemed to be so preoccupied with have had some state-sponsored attacks made on them.

So, I'm going to close out my five minutes here by asking whether or not this disconnect that seems to be between what the White House is saying publicly and what they are sending out to the states privately.

Any gathering would be risky. And that's what the man has said.

Just remember, I'm going to chair this meeting.

I started my professional career as a public school teacher. I have a daughter who's spent 25 years in a classroom, and she's telling me every day how concerned teachers are about returning to school without the safety precautions that so…

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution means a whole lot to me.

I want them in a classroom. I want them to be educated. But I want them safe. That's what this is about.

On our current course, experts predict another 150,000 Americans could lose their lives from the coronavirus by the end of this year.

But rather than immediately bringing our Nation together to tackle the problem, the Trump administration downplayed the crisis, ignored scientific experts, and deferred to states and the private sector to lead the response.

More than 150,000 Americans are dead from the coronavirus, by far the most of any country in the world.

Our Nation is in the midst of a public health catastrophe.

He could he tweets about everything else, tweet about the life and legacy of John Lewis.

John spoke out against defund the police. And so did I, because we felt that kind of slogan there it could do for Black Lives Matter of what it did for us back in 1960.

We were both kind of anxious about it. We didn't want to see this very successful effort that's taking place today with Black Lives Matter, get derailed.

It's not the words that met, it's your deeds.

These governments will have to lay off workers and limit essential services until they get Federal help

Nothing is more important for restoring economic growth than improving public health

Of course I want to point out that, last week, when President Trump started pushing to fully reopen schools without regard to public health guidance, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued a clarification.