snir inorit coitioneten tarties betwn eartiesndh membhan thjority andinity adan buino event shallebat ntue beyond 1:50 the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. joyce, for five minutes. mr. joyce: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i rise to address the house and ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. joyce: madam speaker, nearly 100 days after being appointed as the biden administration border czar, vice president harris finally visited the southern border at the end of last week. it was 800 miles away from the crux of the problem, but i suppose it's a start. clearly the biden-harris administration knows that it is facing a border crisis. to them it's a p.r. crisis. to the american people the biden border crisis is so real. as i have said time and time

snir inorit coitioneten tarties betwn eartiesndh membhan thjority andinity adan buino event shallebat ntue beyond 1:50 the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. joyce, for five minutes. mr. joyce: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i rise to address the house and ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. joyce: madam speaker, nearly 100 days after being appointed as the biden administration border czar, vice president harris finally visited the southern border at the end of last week. it was 800 miles away from the crux of the problem, but i suppose it's a start. clearly the biden-harris administration knows that it is facing a border crisis. to them it's a p.r. crisis. to the american people the biden border crisis is so real. as i have said time and time again, the illicit fentanyl made in china or elsewhere then crosses the pourous southern border and kinds up on our streets in pennsylvania. it spurs addiction, it tears apart families, it destroys work force, and worst of all, it's quilling killing f

is that what it does, snir. >> no, it's important, john, to say what is critical race theory and whatll across the country. that's a straw object that's been created. what critical race theory actually is is just a branch of critical legal studies. it's what people learn in law school and it was a group of black scholars and students and academics who argued race was a central element of the law, the way in which the law was constructed many american history and the way in which it was applied. we know this to be true when we think about the three fifths compromise, we know this to be true in terms of the jim crow system, we know this to be true even after formal jim crow ended when we think about racial disparities in the criminal justice system between, for example, crack versus powder cocaine, and the disparate impact. when they think about critical race theory, what conservatives are doing and what the gop is doing, is using this to stop the teaching of american history. tulsa, oklahoma in 1921 is not critical race theory. selma, where john lewis had his skull fractured is not cri