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Scalise dismantles claims in Cuomo administration’s ‘half-baked’ nursing home report, reiterates call for him to cooperate with Congressional investigation

On Thursday, Republican Whip and House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) once again called on NY Governor Andrew Cuomo (D) to answer questions about his deadly “must admit” order that forced the state’s nursing homes to take in potentially infective coronavirus patients in contradiction of federal safety guidelines. In the letter, ...

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Republicans demand answers after WHO provides false information on China’s coverup to Congress

On Wednesday, Republican members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis along with full Oversight Committee Ranking member James Comer (R-Ky.) called on World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to testify to under oath following revelations that WHO provided false information to Congress about China’s actions in the pandemic. In response to an April letter from Oversight Republicans,

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Ranking Member Comer: The WHO doesn’t deserve our money or our membership

In response to the White House's Tuesday announcement that President Trump had formally withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer issued the following statement in support of the action: "Withdrawing the United States from the World Health Organization was the right decision. China lied, the WHO complied, and Americans died. From the very start, the WHO and Secretary-General Tedros have proven that their priority ...

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Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office tells PA House Republican delegation, House Select Subcommittee that ongoing nursing home investigation is ‘thorough, holistic, and wide-ranging’

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Scalise praises administration for transparency in releasing PPP information

On Monday, Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) released the following statement in response to the Small Business Association's release of

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Scalise calls on Democrats to end burdensome, baseless probe into PPP lenders

On Thursday, Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Scalise urged Select Subcommittee Chairman Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.) to narrow his inquiry into the implementation of the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) since the Small Business Administration and the Department of Treasury have agreed to provide the requested information and data. In a letter, Ranking ...

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Scalise, Brady, Walden set the record straight about Democrats’ half-baked nursing home report

On Wednesday, Ranking Members Kevin Brady (R-Texas) and Greg Walden (R-Ore.) joined Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise (R-La.) to set the record straight in response to the release of Senate Democrats' 

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House Republicans press state AGs to probe governors’ deadly nursing home orders

On Wednesday, all five Republican members of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, as well as Republican members of the New York, California, Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania delegations, urged the attorneys general of those states to investigate the origins of their governors’ deadly nursing home orders and the impact those orders had on their states’ elderly populations. The new letters come more than a week after Select Subcommittee members wrote to the ...

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Select Subcommittee Republicans take steps to hold governors accountable for coronavirus nursing home tragedies

On Monday, Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee Ranking Member Steve Scalise, along with the other four Republican members of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, sent letters to the governors of five states that forced nursing homes to take in COVID-positive patients as part of their pandemic response. “The decision of several governors to ignore federal protocols and instead mandate COVID positive patients be forced back to their nursing homes ended up being a death ...

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Remote Hearing: “No Worker Left Behind: Supporting Essential Workers”

SUBJECT:      Remote Hearing on “No Worker Left Behind:  Supporting Essential Workers” DATE:            Wednesday, June 10, 2020 TIME:             12:00 p.m. E.T. PLACE:          WebEx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBrB5W9BXDM   WITNESSES:   Eneida Becote Wife of Edward Becote United Healthcare Workers East/SEIU1199 member who passed away from ...