[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 114 (Wednesday, June 30, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3576]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                      STATUS OF THE HYDE AMENDMENT

  (Mr. BURCHETT asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURCHETT. Mr. Speaker, Joe Biden's budget request is troubling 
for many reasons. Today, I want to focus on how the President is 
weaponizing his budget to the left's anti-life agenda.
  In his fiscal year 2022 budget, President Biden has called on 
Congress to eliminate the Hyde amendment, which Biden used to support 
when he was in the United States Senate.
  The Hyde amendment is commonsense policy that has stood for decades. 
It would be wrong to force pro-life Americans to fund abortions against 
their moral will.
  Mr. Speaker, abortion goes directly against the Catholic Church's 
teachings, but Joe Biden, a Catholic himself, has embraced abortion.
  I applaud the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops for 
sticking to their guns about the church's principles. On June 18, the 
organization condemned President Biden's assault on right to life by 
overwhelmingly voting to deny him communion.
  Eliminating the Hyde amendment would be a death sentence for millions 
of unborn Americans, Mr. Speaker. Being anti-life is now the price of 
admission into today's Democratic Party, but Joe Biden knows deep down 
this isn't right.
  The President needs to buck his party's radical base on this issue 
and ditch his plans to scrap the Hyde amendment.
  Mr. President, get back to your roots from when you were a Senator. 
Make the right decision and protect the lives of the unborn.

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