GOP Reps. Crenshaw, Gaetz, Boebert, McCarthy, Jordan, Kinzinger, Cheney vote with Democrats Tuesday night, passing 2022 annual defense spending bill that will "establish a system to track and record" each "vaccine administered" to U.S. soldiers and each vaccine "refusal."
Over the past half-century or so, American law enforcement and popular culture have conferred an extra level of seriousness and gravity to “hate crimes” as opposed to regular crimes. The definition of a hate crime, according to the FBI, is a regular crime with an added element of bias. “A ‘criminal’ offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, sexual orientation, ethnicity, gender, or gender identity,” the FBI.gov website states.
Two Democrats joined all 50 Republicans in Wednesday’s 52 - 48 vote to overturn President Biden’s vaccine mandate for private business with more than 100 employers. According to news reports, even if the measure secures enough votes to pass in the House, Biden will likely veto it.
In a mostly partisan vote, the United States Senate has voted to repeal President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 testing-or-vaccine mandate for private sector workers across the nation.
The World Health Organization announced its hesitancy to COVID-19 vaccine mandates. The organization’s European director, Dr. Hans Kluge, made the WHO’s stance known on a recent video presser. Dr. Kluge said such a sweeping move should only be used as a last resort.
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., said Tuesday he had spoken with former President Donald Trump about Trump becoming House Speaker should Republicans win control of the chamber in next year's midterms.
Dr. Susan Desmond-Hellmann – a member of Pfizer Inc.’s Board of Directors – previously served as the Lead Independent Director at social media giant Facebook. The site has routinely censored posts relating to COVID-19 vaccines, with Pfizer in particular eliciting support from major corporate outlets.
New York City is poised to become the largest place in the country to grant noncitizens the right to vote in local elections, the Associated Press reported.
Mayor Bill de Blasio announces sweeping Covid-19 vaccine mandate for all private employers in New York City on Monday morning, even though doctors "not sure why" all the "hype" over Omicron.
80 House Republicans—including Reps. Dan Crenshaw (TX), Adam Kinzinger (IL), Kevin McCarthy (CA), Young Kim (CA)—voted in favor of a Democrat-sponsored bill that will upgrade an "Orwellian" federal vaccine database used to "track" unvaccinated Americans.