[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 57 (Thursday, March 31, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H4013-H4014]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               TROUBLING RECORD OF KETANJI BROWN JACKSON

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Clyde) for 5 minutes.
  Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to highlight the troubling 
record of President Biden's U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Ketanji Brown 
Jackson, commonly known as KBJ.
  Throughout her legal career, Ketanji Brown Jackson has earned a 
disturbing record on crime. In advocating for and administering lighter 
sentences for sex offenders, particularly those preying on and sexually 
abusing innocent children, KBJ has set an unforgivable pattern that 
disqualifies her from our country's highest Court.
  A prime example of this pattern can be found in the case of U.S. v. 
Hawkins, where the sentencing guidelines called for up to 10 years in 
prison for a man, an adult convicted of possessing multiple images of 
child sex torture. Ketanji Brown Jackson sentenced this predator to 
just 3 months in jail. Unconscionable.
  Mr. Hawkins recently told The Washington Post, ``I wasn't very happy 
that she gave me 3 months, although after reflection when I was in 
jail, I was hearing from other people who said it was their first time 
arrested and they got 5 years, 6 years.'' And he got 3 months.
  As crime rates soar in our cities across the country, adding soft-on-
crime Justices, especially a Justice who basically ignores the crime of 
possessing and promoting images of severe child sexual assault, adding 
a Justice like that to the bench sends an alarming message to 
communities fearing for their safety.
  Additionally, during her confirmation hearing last week, KBJ refused 
to define what a woman is, excusing her absurdity by claiming she isn't 
a biologist.
  From women's sports to woke corporations like Disney, liberals are 
pushing an evil agenda that is erasing women and undermining women's 
accomplishments. As conservatives like myself fight this woke 
extremism, there will surely be cases considered in the future at the 
Supreme Court that require Justices to understand and accept the 
differences between men and women.
  If KBJ can't define a woman, how is she to adjudicate Title IX cases? 
This is a legitimate question that no Democrat wants to answer. This, 
too, is disqualifying.
  While I do not serve in the body that decides this monumental 
confirmation, I do have a responsibility to tell the American people 
the truth. And the truth is, a vote to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson is 
a vote for lenient sentences for child sexual torture, a vote for the 
left's woke war on canceling the achievements of real women, and a vote 
for the liberals' dangerous agenda.
  Americans, including Georgians, don't want a Justice on the bench who 
supports any of this radical garbage. Georgians are watching Senators 
Warnock and Ossoff. Will they vote for a Supreme Court nominee that is 
soft on crime, on one of the most heinous crimes of all, child sex 
torture, or

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will they stand up for all of Georgia's family values, protect our 
children, and be tough on crime by voting ``no'' on this Supreme Court 
nominee?
  For the sake of our great Nation, the Senate must save the Supreme 
Court from a lifetime of votes siding with demented pedophiles by 
voting ``no'' on Ketanji Brown Jackson's confirmation.


                          No Vaccine Mandates

  Mr. CLYDE. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to urge my colleagues to join me 
in ensuring the Federal Government never again abuses its power by 
ordering employees to receive a vaccine or lose their job.
  The COVID-19 pandemic has proven powerful elites will stop at nothing 
to quench their thirst for power, including President Biden, who issued 
through OSHA a rule that forced businesses with 100 or more employees 
to require the COVID-19 vaccine.
  Forcing workers out of a job if they refuse to take a jab is a wholly 
unconstitutional power grab that violates Americans' freedoms, 
exacerbates labor shortages, and intensifies the supply chain crisis.
  Congress occasionally gives our government agencies certain broad 
authorities, and when those powers are abused, it is our responsibility 
to claw them back and safeguard the rights of American citizens.
  While the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Biden's OSHA rule, 
Congress has the authority and the responsibility to prevent any future 
attempts by the executive branch to subject the American people to 
unlawful mandates. This is why I proudly introduced H.R. 7281, the 
Reversing Every Vaccine Emergency Requirement and Stopping Employee 
OSHA Mandates Act.
  My bill, whose short title, is REVERSE OSHA Mandates Act, amends the 
Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 to repeal the Secretary's 
authority to issue emergency temporary standards and is a commonsense 
and crucial step toward preventing future government overreach by OSHA 
and defeating their hand in medical tyranny.
  It is incumbent upon Congress to prohibit this dangerous abuse of 
power from further tarnishing our Nation's history and subverting 
American workers' rights, which is why I urge all of my colleagues on 
both sides of the aisle to support this legislation that reins in OSHA 
and protects the freedoms of American workers.

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