[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 152 (Wednesday, September 21, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H8015]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          THE PANDEMIC IS OVER

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair recognizes the gentlewoman from 
Michigan (Mrs. McClain) for 5 minutes.
  Mrs. McCLAIN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to reiterate an important 
statement made by our President: The pandemic is over.
  This weekend on ``60 Minutes,'' President Biden finally said what 
most Americans have known for months: We are no longer in the COVID-19 
pandemic.
  So if the President just admitted it, that means the national 
emergency is over, correct?
  If that is the case, then why did the President just tell the country 
that the pandemic is so bad that we should forgive billions of dollars 
of student debt, or that it is because of the ongoing pandemic that we 
must continue to enforce a vaccine mandate on our Nation's military?

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  I will tell you why--it is because it was never about the pandemic. 
It was about the President bypassing Congress and the Constitution to 
push his radical socialist agenda.
  Mr. Speaker, President Biden himself has said the pandemic is over. 
It is past time that we strip him of his emergency powers and end the 
vaccine mandates and reject all COVID-related funding requests.

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