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Protect Children's Innocence Act

Floor Speech

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

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Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI. Madam Speaker, I rise in strong opposition to H.R. 3492.

This measure would allow politicians, not doctors, not families, to decide medically necessary care for family members. It criminalizes medically necessary, evidence-based lifesaving care, and it threatens parents and physicians with prison time for providing care for their kids.

As millions of Americans face losing their health insurance, Republicans are not working to protect coverage or lower costs. Instead, they are focused on throwing the parents and doctors of trans youth into jail.

We should be strengthening care, not dismantling it. We should trust doctors and families, not replace medicine with ideology. No parent should have to fear prosecution for trying to get their child the care they need, and that is exactly what this measure would do.

Madam Speaker, I urge a strong ``no'' vote.

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