[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 48 (Thursday, March 17, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H3788]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             ENDING MASK MANDATES ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

  (Mr. HUIZENGA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HUIZENGA. Madam Speaker, I rise today to demand a vote on H.J. 
Res. 72, a Congressional Review Act resolution that would end the CDC's 
mask mandate for airlines, trains, buses, and other public 
transportation hubs.
  Tuesday night, the Senate voted in a rare bipartisan manner to end 
these mandates in what even CNN called a ``bipartisan rebuke of Biden 
administration policy.''
  States and cities, big and small, across the country have ended or 
are in the process of ending their mask mandates at schools, basketball 
games, and even crowded restaurants.
  Thousands of fans will pack arenas in the coming days to cheer on 
their teams during March Madness. At these games, they rightly won't be 
required to wear a mask. But as soon as they step onto a plane, a bus, 
a train, or even a metro, unelected bureaucrats, at the direction of 
President Biden, have decreed that masks must be put on and must be 
worn.
  It is past time for this unscientific mask mandate to end. I am 
calling on Speaker Pelosi to hold a vote on repealing this mask 
mandate. Americans want their lives back, and it is time to vote.

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