Burgess Owens

Clearly, the classroom setting does not heighten children and teachers' risk of severe COVID-19 cases.

The American Rescue Plan did not deliver on its promise to help schools safely reopen in this fall.

The current surge we are experiencing in COVID-19 related hospitalizations began in June, long before schools reopened.

We must lean on the scientific facts, and not political fiction.

I thank my friend from Louisiana. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to abortion on demand until birth act. I have watched over the last 40 years as abortionists have targeted my race. It was a race that, as a child in the 1960s, had…

I would like to take a moment to discuss the devastating drought affecting Utah this year. Ninety percent of the West is experiencing extreme drought conditions. This includes every county in the great State of Utah-- already one of the…

We cannot continue to demean and disrespect the good servants, the 90 percent of good men and women policing our communities and expect technology to make up for it.

The concerns surrounding facial recognition technology demand a bipartisan solution, and I look forward to working with my colleagues to address these concerns.

I have a very passion for, because I've watched my community that was really into education lose it the last 6 years because poor children do not have a choice like many other children to leave failing schools.

2 + 2 = 4 by the way is racist. Asking for homework is racist.

I would like to once again highlight our newest Federal holiday, Juneteenth, or Emancipation Day. For Americans who are not familiar with this day, it has been celebrated within the Black community for over 150 years. This was the day when…

Don't just leave those kids there to languish because schools are not, are not succeeding.

The voucher system was working in D.C. years ago. 93 percent of the kids coming through those systems with vouchers were succeeding in going to college.

Today in California, we saw a creation of a pathway to equitable math instruction. it's a CRT tool kit that promotes the concept of white supremacy.

I think you would agree and I'm hoping you agree that it is about the child, not about the school.

girl athletes cannot compete against boy athletes.

This is the next civil rights. We need to make sure our kids are thinking, particularly black kids.

This has been going on too long, and the answers are not working.

It is disgusting and offensive to compare the actual voter suppression and violence of the era that we grew up in with a State law that only asks people to show their ID.

Will you commit your office to aggressively investigate all forms of racial discrimination instructional practices under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act?

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I honor a great man, public servant, and Vista Heights Middle School's head custodian, Roger Morgan, from Saratoga Springs, Utah. When COVID-19 disrupted normalcy last year, Roger did what…

Mr. Chairman it's our job to point out when the education is failing our children, especially our most vulnerable children.

This is a travesty my friends, and there's a difference.

It baffles me that the response from our friends on the other side of the aisle seem to be that we're being too mean or unfair to teachers unions.

But the Congressional Budget Office said almost none of this money will play any role in reopening schools.