Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, first of all, let me thank my colleague from Florida for her remarks. We can do a lot of good things in our country, including closing the border and taking care of inflation. If we do not teach our young people the danger of communism, then we will rot from within. Mr. Speaker, I thank Ms. Salazar for her leadership. Communism's long, dark history of political suppression, persecution, and violence is established fact. As I mentioned at the start, communism has led to the deaths of over 100 million victims worldwide and currently tramples the human rights 1.5 billion people across the globe. It is troubling that so many Gen Zers have no problem with communism or even embrace it. This is the result of at least two factors: the lack of accurate educational materials in U.S. schools and malign foreign actors who successfully push their propaganda. The good news is that Republicans have a solution that has bipartisan support. H.R. 5349, the Crucial Communism Teaching Act, will support State and local efforts to educate high school students about the dangers of communism and how those systems are contrary to the founding principles of freedom in the United States. Communist influence and infiltration in schools is real. Students need accurate information about how dangerous these ideologies are.…”