Glad they're attacking these terrible problems that are of vital interest to our country! Might as well vote to redefine pi as 3.0! Worthless idiots!:
The House is poised to vote Tuesday on a bill titled, “The ‘‘Pandemic Is Over Act.’’
The measure, which seeks to terminate the public health emergency declared by the nation’s health secretary, is among a handful of bills that the Republican-led chamber is considering this week with an eye toward moving beyond the coronavirus, even as health officials warn that a highly transmissible omicron subvariant could lead to another wave of hospitalizations this winter.
“It is long overdue for President Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency and relinquish the emergency powers that he just renewed again,” Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) said in a statement this month upon introducing the legislation, which faces long odds in the Senate if it makes it that far.
The United States has renewed the covid-19 public health emergency every 90 days since the Trump administration first issued a declaration in January 2020. Among other things, the declaration protects public health insurance coverage for millions of people, provides hospitals with greater flexibility in handling patient surges and expands the use of telehealth.
Another bill teed up in the House this week would end a vaccine mandate for health-care workers in federal programs. It is titled the “Freedom for Health Care Workers Act.”
Yet another would require a study of the impacts of remote work by federal agencies. Its title signals what its supporters would like the study to find: the ‘‘Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems Act of 2023’’ or, for short, the ‘‘Show Up Act of 2023.”
The House is poised to vote Tuesday on a bill titled, “The ‘‘Pandemic Is Over Act.’’
The measure, which seeks to terminate the public health emergency declared by the nation’s health secretary, is among a handful of bills that the Republican-led chamber is considering this week with an eye toward moving beyond the coronavirus, even as health officials warn that a highly transmissible omicron subvariant could lead to another wave of hospitalizations this winter.
“It is long overdue for President Biden to end the COVID-19 public health emergency and relinquish the emergency powers that he just renewed again,” Rep. Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) said in a statement this month upon introducing the legislation, which faces long odds in the Senate if it makes it that far.
The United States has renewed the covid-19 public health emergency every 90 days since the Trump administration first issued a declaration in January 2020. Among other things, the declaration protects public health insurance coverage for millions of people, provides hospitals with greater flexibility in handling patient surges and expands the use of telehealth.
Another bill teed up in the House this week would end a vaccine mandate for health-care workers in federal programs. It is titled the “Freedom for Health Care Workers Act.”
Yet another would require a study of the impacts of remote work by federal agencies. Its title signals what its supporters would like the study to find: the ‘‘Stopping Home Office Work’s Unproductive Problems Act of 2023’’ or, for short, the ‘‘Show Up Act of 2023.”
