[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 160 (Wednesday, September 16, 2020)]
[House]
[Page H4436]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   STAND UP FOR SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Texas (Ms. Johnson) for 5 minutes.
  Ms. JOHNSON of Texas. Mr. Speaker, we woke up this morning to another 
1,000 souls lost to coronavirus and the Western States are ablaze. Our 
most powerful weapon for combating these threats is rigorous, unbiased 
science. And yet this administration continues to suppress and 
misrepresent the work of our Federal scientists.
  HHS officials appear to be tampering with public health bulletins to 
suit their political narrative. EPA is misrepresenting its own 
analysts' work to absolve polluters. And just yesterday, the President 
claimed that science doesn't know about the impacts of climate change.
  If science doesn't know, who does?
  This cannot go on. My committee has been fighting back. Among other 
initiatives, we have passed the Scientific Integrity Act to make sure 
that Federal science is not distorted by politics or special interests, 
no matter who is in the White House.
  As we work to make this bill a law, I commend all of our Federal 
scientists who remain objective, exacting, and transparent in their 
research: Don't quit. Continue to stand up to scientific integrity. 
Your country needs you. We all do.

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