Never Again Education Act

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Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.

Madam Speaker, I rise in support of H.R. 943, the Never Again Education Act.

With each passing year, there are fewer and fewer people who can provide firsthand accounts of the horrors of the Holocaust. We have a responsibility to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust are not forgotten.

As Elie Wiesel once said: ``Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must, at that moment, become the center of the universe.''

This legislation creates a grant program to fund Holocaust education programs across the country.

As we confront a disturbing rise of anti-Jewish bigotry and acts of hate, let us invest in the minds of young people to understand the destructive powers of intolerance and how to use that knowledge to embrace understanding and insight.

Madam Speaker, I thank Chairwoman Maloney, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Norcross, and Ms. Stefanik for their leadership, and I encourage my colleagues to support the bill.

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