Promoting Responsible Oversight to Eliminate Communist Teachings for Our Kids Act

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Mr. OWENS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 1069, the PROTECT Our Kids Act. For far too long, American education has been undermined from within by actors who have taken advantage of our free and open society to advance the nefarious and anti-freedom objectives of the Chinese Communist Party.

Under the veneer of cultural and educational exchange, the CCP and operatives have restricted free speech, monitored Chinese students and faculty, and served as intelligence-gathering conduits on emerging American technologies.

These soft power tactics are part of a broader strategy to cultivate networks of communist influence, within the very institutions responsible for shaping the next generation of American patriots.

These subversive efforts are not limited to our universities. The CCP has even reached into elementary classrooms, cultivating favorable attitudes toward the Chinese Communist Party among young American students.

With passage of the PROTECT Our Kids Act, schools that refuse to confront this reality will no longer be eligible for Federal funds, full stop. The message is straightforward and simple to education administrators who don't understand the concept of American patriotism. This behavior will not be tolerated and no longer subsidized by the American taxpayers.

Under this Republican majority and this Trump administration, American education will be protected and renewed. Our classrooms will return to their rightful purpose: teaching and preserving our great American values.

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