[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 69 (Wednesday, April 27, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4520]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]





              UNCONSTITUTIONAL MANDATES SACRIFICE FREEDOM

  (Mr. CAWTHORN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. CAWTHORN. Mr. Speaker, the United States was born out of 
disobedience. It was disobedience to a tyrannical government that led 
to the founding of our Constitution and our American ideals. Today, 
patriots still sometimes disobey, even at the cost of great personal 
hardship.
  Twenty-year veterans of law enforcement agencies have turned in their 
badges because they refuse to bow the knee to vaccine mandates.
  Nurses have worked and studied for years, only to have their jobs 
stripped away because of a virus that they themselves committed to 
defeating.
  Servicemembers, firefighters, EMTs, are all sacrificing their careers 
to stand for their convictions and for freedom.
  Unconstitutional mandates sacrifice freedom on the altar of safety. 
Mask mandates are dying because patriots have fought back. Let's do it 
again with vaccine mandates. This is not a matter of health; it is a 
matter of liberty.
  These heroes will not go away quietly, and we will defend them 
because they have defended us.
  Mr. Speaker, it is time to end medical tyranny, end Federal 
Government overreach, and end vaccine mandates.

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