We need strong Federal leadership and a national plan to guide these choices, not wishful thinking.

we should assure every school has the resources it needs to safely educate students during the pandemic

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.

If my colleagues are serious about getting kids back to school safely, I want to ask them to join me in demanding Federal leadership.

The only way we can provide real relief to these families is to take control of the pandemic as fast as we can.

CDC must provide school districts with clear, science-based guidance about the risks of physically reopening schools.

Schools must reopen based on science and the safety of our children and teachers, not politics and wishful thinking.

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

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

We must provide school districts the funding and assistance they need to educate children safely.

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

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

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

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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…

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Let me begin by thanking my friends Mr. Smith, Mr. Davis, Mr. DeFazio, and Mr. Suozzi, for bringing forth this bipartisan bill. In March 2019 Samantha Josephson, a 21-year-old native of New Jersey, was…