At today's House Republican leadership press briefing, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) slammed Harvard President Claudine Gay after the Harvard Board voted to keep her as President.
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00:15 >> Good morning.
00:16 A point of personal privilege.
00:18 There is a reason why the testimony at the Education
00:22 and Workforce Committee garnered 1 billion views worldwide.
00:27 And it's because those university presidents made
00:29 history by putting the most morally bankrupt testimony
00:33 into the congressional record and the world saw it.
00:36 As a Harvard graduate, I'm reminded
00:39 of Harvard's motto, Veritas, which goes back,
00:42 and it's older than the founding of our country.
00:45 It goes back to the 1640s.
00:47 In addition, the motto was Veritas Christo et Ecclesiae,
00:53 truth for Christ and the church.
00:56 Larry Summers, who was president of Harvard when I was
00:58 in undergrad, talked about the meaning
01:00 of Veritas is divine truth, moral truth.
01:04 Let me be clear, Veritas does not depend on the context.
01:11 This is a moral failure of Harvard's leadership
01:14 and higher education leadership at the highest levels.
01:17 And the only change they have made to their code of conduct,
01:21 where they failed to condemn calls for genocide
01:25 of the Jewish people, the only update to the code of conduct is
01:29 to allow a plagiarist as the president of Harvard.
01:31 Shifting gears to what is on the floor this week,
01:36 I wanted to highlight the National Defense
01:38 Authorization Act.
01:39 I'm a proud member of the House Armed Services Committee.
01:42 Our speaker and our House Republican Conference
01:44 and our committee members have done tremendous work.
01:47 Wanted to highlight the Parents' Bill of Rights provision,
01:49 which I know the speakers fought very hard for,
01:53 that we're very proud to have in the bill.
01:54 That was a provision that I authored
01:56 and garnered bipartisan support in the House.
01:58 But unfortunately, Democrats fought hard to keep that out.
02:01 Our speaker got that provision in.
02:03 And I also wanted to highlight Chairwoman Kathy McMorris-Rogers
02:07 tremendous work on her healthcare package,
02:10 standing up for patients to lower costs
02:12 and bring more transparency in the healthcare space,
02:15 specifically highlighting the community health centers
02:18 provision, which we worked so hard in my office
02:20 with the committee members to get included.
02:23 So with that, I want to turn it over to Erin Houchen,
02:25 who has been such a strong advocate
02:28 on the healthcare provisions.
02:29 Erin.
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