Cathy McMorris Rodgers actually said...

"The mental health crisis caused by school closing will be a worse pandemic than COVID."

"It needs to be amended. It needs to be updated. I agree. But I certainly would ask my Democratic colleagues to work in a bipartisan manner as Congressman Rush and I have done to modernize this law."

"Keeping schools closed or even partially closed, based on what we know now, is harming our children."

"The alternative is catastrophic."