[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 128 (Wednesday, July 21, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H3765]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             HYDE AMENDMENT

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Kansas (Mr. Mann) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. MANN. Madam Speaker, I rise today to voice my strong opposition 
to President Biden's budget proposal for its exclusion of the Hyde 
amendment, which for 45 years has protected Americans from forced 
financial complicity in abortion and abortion services.
  When Congress passed the Hyde amendment in 1976, our country's 
lawmakers had the sense and decency to agree that if abortions were 
going to take place in this country, then at least dissenting Americans 
wouldn't get stuck with the bill. Forcing people to pay for the killing 
of babies with their tax dollars is unconscionable. That is why the 
Hyde amendment was passed.
  Now, the President wants to revoke this protection, as if his $6 
trillion budget--which would blatantly require us to raise taxes or 
print money unto bankruptcy--wasn't already disastrous enough.
  I believe that life begins at conception and that unborn children in 
our country have a right to live. Every Member of Congress should, but 
one does not need to in order to support the Hyde amendment, which 
prohibits the Federal Government from forcing the American public to do 
something that we should never ask them to do: pay for abortions.


                    Hutchinson Football Championship

  Mr. MANN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to celebrate the First District's 
Hutchinson Community College football team on their National Junior 
College Athletic Association National Championship.
  Earlier this month I spoke on this very floor about playing eight-man 
football in rural Kansas. I indicated there were clear winners and 
losers in the game. On June 5, 2021, the Blue Dragons finished the 
regular season as clear winners, undefeated, and ranked number one. On 
top of that, first year Head Coach Drew Dallas went on to be named the 
2020 through 2021 NJCAA Football Coach of the Year.
  This is the program's first national championship and third 
undefeated season. The talent, time, and effort that these student 
athletes put into playing football while obtaining a college education 
is remarkable.
  Congratulations again to the Hutchinson Community College football 
team and to Coach Dallas.

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