[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 198 (Monday, November 15, 2021)]
[House]
[Page H6259]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                    UNCONSTITUTIONAL VACCINE MANDATE

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, the Fifth Circuit Court has very recently 
blocked President Joe Biden's coronavirus vaccine mandate. The Court 
wrote that the mandate ``grossly exceeds OSHA's statutory authority.'' 
This reaffirms that the President and OSHA simply cannot make up laws 
and penalties as they go or from thin air. So let's stop making health 
decisions for an entire population. Instead, let the individual and 
their doctor decide what preventative measures will suit them best, not 
a bureaucrat guessing one week to the next what that might be.
  Some said--many are saying--that they would rather retire or let 
themselves be fired than to continue in a job situation where they are 
being forced to take a vaccine. I can't believe this is happening in 
this country. I can't believe they are trying to pin it on some 1905 
State court decision of Massachusetts v. Jacobsen.
  Losing our doctors, losing our healthcare workers to retirement would 
be a devastating one already to our underserved rural and urban areas. 
Other employees represent years and years of knowledge and talent that 
would be lost because of this unconstitutional mandate.

  I say to President Biden: Whose side are you on?

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