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WASHINGTON—Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today issued the following statement on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) school reopening guidance: “Today’s CDC guidance essentially reiterates the same guidance issued eight months ago. It’s time for President Biden to stand up to the unions and reopen schools. The science could not be more straightforward: schools must safely ...

Measure also provides an additional 600 hours of paid leave to federal employees WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) issued the following statement after Democrats advanced a $350 billion bailout for state and local governments and $570 million in additional paid leave for federal and postal workers. The partisan legislation passed the Oversight Committee without a single Republican amendment. “The ...

California granted an estimated $11-$31 billion in fraudulent unemployment benefits WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), and Congressman Gary Palmer (R-Ala.) today called on Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) to hold a hearing to investigate billions in fraudulent unemployment benefits granted by the California Employment Development Department. “Governor Newsom ...

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WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today issued the following statement after Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y.) announced the markup of a $350 billion bailout for state and local governments and $570 million for additional paid leave for federal employees and postal workers, which is part of the Democrats’ budget reconciliation scheme. “Democrats’ plan to bail out locked-down, poorly managed liberal states is unfair to ...

WASHINGTON—Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) today called out Subcommittee Democrats for ignoring the Biden Administration’s potential political interference in the coronavirus response and demanded the Democrats expand their investigation to include the current administration. In a letter to Chairman James Clyburn (D-S.C.), Scalise points out that the Biden Administration chastised U.S. Centers for Disease ...