[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 201 (Thursday, November 18, 2021)]
[House]
[Pages H6374-H6375]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        VACCINE MANDATE CONCERNS

  (Mr. ROSE asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. ROSE. Madam Speaker, today, I come to the House floor to speak on 
behalf of business owners and employees and healthcare providers, 
including employees at Cookeville Regional Medical Center who are 
concerned about President Biden's unconstitutional vaccine mandate.
  If the Biden administration mandate is allowed to take effect, there 
is a strong possibility that Cookeville Regional Medical Center, the 
hospital in my hometown where I was born and where my two sons were 
born, will not have the staff necessary to carry on normal operations.
  The Biden administration's plan to mandate vaccines will devastate 
medical facilities throughout the country. Let me be clear. President 
Biden's mandates on medical facilities will dramatically exacerbate the 
current medical worker shortage in my State and in my district.
  While I encourage everyone to consult with their doctors and consider 
joining me in being vaccinated, it is not the Federal Government's 
place, under the current circumstances, to mandate a vaccine. That is 
why I am calling on President Biden to end his indiscriminate vaccine 
mandate.

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