[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 68 (Tuesday, April 26, 2022)]
[House]
[Pages H4462-H4463]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                            TSA MASK MANDATE

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, last week, U.S. District Judge Kathryn 
Mizelle voided President Biden and the CDC's overbearing and 
unnecessary mask mandate for airplanes and public transportation.
  After the announcement, I saw many videos online of many flyers and 
flight attendants joyously ripping off their masks to celebrate. I had 
urged, along

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with many other colleagues in a couple of different letters to the 
President, to allow the mask mandate to expire a few months ago. So 
finally, I was relieved and pleased to hear of this announcement by the 
judge.
  Our celebration was short-lived, however, as the Biden administration 
soon announced they would sue to try to repeal the judge's ruling and 
force back in place mask mandates for people traveling.
  Science has repeatedly found that the masks are not nearly as 
effective at preventing the spread of COVID as they previously had 
thought. It really boils down to that government likes controlling 
people with this. They like scaring them. They like putting them in a 
box and saying, If you don't do this, you might die.
  People, if they are forced into having mask mandates on public 
transportation once again, there is going to be a lot of anger coming 
out that no midterms or nothing else will save if they force this onto 
us.

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