we should be teaching our children the academic skills they need to succeed along with the complete history of our country, the good, the bad, and the ugly.

And then who do you believe is responsible, at the end of the day, for school closures that happened all across the country?

But what, in your opinion, are some of the interventions that we should or could be doing now to make the environment better for learning for students who have been so negatively impacted by COVID-19 and being out of school?

Our children should not be taught that they are oppressors or that they are victims, merely based on the color of their skin.

We must teach our children all of the chapters of our history, and in K-12 classrooms there are no places to be teaching concept like race as essentialism.

Teachers' unions, actually, during COVID-19 directed and guided the CDC on school closures rather than giving that grace to states and to school boards.

Do you believe that parents have First Amendment rights?

We have so much further we have to go, and we are not doing it. And we need to do better in terms of the way and the amount of money is spent.

We saw kids that were struggling with their mental health. We had suicides and attempted suicides and suicidal thoughts and mental health issues with our children increase over 25 percent during the COVID-19 pandemic.

So do you believe it OK if parents show up to school board meetings to have their voices heard, especially when they disagree with school boards?

And there is no time like the present to be having this conversation because kids are still suffering from what we put them through in COVID-19, aka virtual school, which was an absolute abject failure for our students across the country.

We miserably failed our students during COVID-19. This learning loss was acute.

free speech should not be stifled.

I had the freedom to make that decision on my own terms after I completed years of college, law school, a judicial clerkship, and legal training.

Women's rights are human rights. Reproductive healthcare is healthcare. Medical decisions should be made by women and those that they trust, not politicians and officials.

The vast majority of Americans understand that reproductive health decisions are complex and should be made by a woman and those she's close to.

I would not trust even the best politicians to make those judgments for my daughters, much less would I trust the politicians who are fighting to criminalize abortion in all cases with no exceptions even for violent rape or incest across…

I would suggest that our Republican colleagues and particularly Mitch McConnell have already exercised undue influence on the Supreme Court's decision by packing the Court with far-right justices.

Ultimately, I am sure that Abe Lincoln is as right about the 21st century as he was about the 19th century. We are not going to be able to endure half free and half controlled by the government.

Some of our colleagues have suggested that the purpose of this hearing is to pressure the Supreme Court's decision in the Dobbs' case.

Last fall, the House voted to pass the Women's Health Protection Act which would codify many of the rights enshrined in Roe v. Wade and Casey.

We can be the nation that rolls back the clock, that rolls back the rights of women, and that strips them of their very liberty, or we can be the nation of choice, the nation where every woman can make her own choice.

Aviation is at the forefront of innovation to become--and is--one of the safest, most reliable modes of transportation in the world today.

I have no further speakers, and I am prepared to close. Mr. Speaker, I support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I also want to again recognize my colleagues, Representatives Neguse and Franklin, who crafted the House companion legislation, H.R. 5962. I encourage my colleagues to support this bill, and I yield back the balance of my time.