Four Bills Cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert to End the COVID Pandemic Pass the House
This week, four bills cosponsored by Congresswoman Lauren Boebert passed the House of Representatives.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert stated, “COVID is over—even Joe Biden admitted it. It is far past time to start undoing the harm that COVID hysteria caused our country, and it starts by reinstating our healthcare workers who should never have been fired for refusing to take the vaccine, requiring federal employees to actually show up to work, and cutting wasteful COVID spending.”
Background:
This week, the House passed H. R. 382, the Pandemic is Over Act, which was cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert. The Pandemic is Over Act orders the Secretary of Health and Human Services to rescind the public health emergency declaration and relinquish all emergency powers that the executive branch has assumed.
With bipartisan support, the House also passed H. R. 497, the Freedom for Health Care Workers Act, which was cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert. This legislation ends the Biden administration’s COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers and nullifies the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ vaccine rule.
Additionally, the House passed H. J. Res. 7, which was cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert. This legislation declares the COVID national emergency is over. Biden has abused his self-declared emergency powers to justify his student loan scam and other unrelated liberal wish list items. This legislation will rescind the declaration of the COVID national emergency pursuant to the National Emergencies Act of 1974.
Finally, the House passed H. R. 139, the SHOW UP Act, which was cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert. As a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee’s Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, Congresswoman Boebert was supportive of this legislation to ensure that federal employees show up to work to serve the American people. According to one disturbing report by the Federal Times, just one in three federal workers has returned to their office full-time. Equally disturbing, a leaked memo from January 2021 to the then-chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services showed that between 20 and 30 percent of the Department’s employees did not log into work on any given day between March and December during 2020. Enough is enough, and it is time for federal employees to show up to work again.
Also this week, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held its first hearing on COVID funding waste, fraud, and abuse.
During the COVID pandemic, Congress authorized over $5.83 trillion in emergency funds. Shockingly, the American taxpayer was possibly defrauded of at least $560 billion as a result of the federal government’s negligence in carrying out so-called Federal COVID-relief funding programs. The hundreds of billions of dollars that were lost have contributed to massive inflation. Even more disturbing, 70% of the money, according to CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, ended up lining the pockets of crime syndicates in countries like China, Nigeria, and Russia Congresswoman Boebert’s latest op-ed in The Hill for more on her work to investigate COVID fraud on the Oversight Committee. See below for some clips from the latest Oversight Committee hearing: