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Protect Children's Innocence Act

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 17, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mrs. RAMIREZ. Madam Speaker, the Republican Party is quickly becoming the party of child suffering. Under their leadership and because of their policies, children are sick from cuts to Medicaid and the end of the ACA subsidies. They are hungry from cuts to SNAP. They are orphaned by violently abducting their parents. They are criminalized and strip- searched at the border, and now they are denied lifesaving gender- affirming care.

Since my Republican colleagues seem confused about what love, care, and protection looks like, let me be very clear. The Protect Children's Innocence Act is not it. No one who causes or tolerates the suffering of children can claim to be their protector.

Love for our children would ensure each of them have every single thing they need to thrive assured to them.

Madam Speaker, I urge my colleagues here in the House of Representatives to vote ``no.'' Let's build a future where our children, including our transgender little ones, are seen, are loved, and are valued.

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