Elise Stefanik Rips 'Plagiarist' Claudine Gay After Harvard Board Keeps Her As President

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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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