[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 105 (Wednesday, June 16, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H2873]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     AMERICANS MUST GET VACCINATED

  (Mr. COHEN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. COHEN. Mr. Speaker, we are not normal. We are not over the 
pandemic. We are not over coronavirus and COVID-19.
  Many people in our country, over a majority in my State of Tennessee, 
have not been immunized, have not had the vaccine.
  I urge everyone to get vaccinated.
  When I was a young child, 5 years old, I got polio. Four months 
before I got polio, my father gave the polio vaccine to second graders 
in a test in Tennessee. He gave it to my brother in the second grade. 
He took some vaccine home to give to me, but decided it was outside of 
his call and didn't do it. I got polio. It has affected me every day of 
my life since, and it affected my father as well.
  I urge everybody to get the vaccine, not to regret it. Keep your 
children, your family, and your neighbors safe and free from illness.

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