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In response to the White House's Tuesday announcement that President Trump had formally withdrawn the United States from the World Health Organization, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member James Comer issued the following statement in support of the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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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

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 ...

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' 

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Monday, House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan and Government Operations Subcommittee Ranking Member Jody Hice, joined Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) in requesting necessary revisions to the United States Postal Services’ (USPS) fiscal impact projections for the COVID-19 crisis. According to recent numbers from USPS, the agency’s revenues were higher during the first three months of the coronavirus crisis and were ...

At Thursday’s virtual briefing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis — which dealt with the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on America’s minority communities — Republican members of the committee took a hard look at the effect that prolonged lockdowns around the country have had on minorities and emphasized the need to reopen our economy. "The economic and health burden of the shutdown has had too big an impact on minority communities,”