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Scalise Calls Out Dems Partisan Diversions at Select Committee Hearing

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House Republican Whip and Ranking Member of the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Steve Scalise's (R-La.) opening statement at today’s Select Subcommittee’s hearing calls out Select Committee Democrats for attempting to use their hearing to sell President Biden and Speaker Pelosi's trillion-dollar tax-and-spending spree. Whip Scalise questioned why House Democrats…

Bidens Border Crisis: From Bad to Worse

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TOPLINE: While President Biden was vacationing in Delaware, more than 15,000 migrants congregated under the Del Rio international bridge, waiting to be apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol. Over 1.2 million illegal immigrants have been captured by federal and state law enforcement officers this year. President Biden’s far-left immigration policies have led to the catastrophe at…

Scalise: Biden's Presidency is Nothing But Crises and Failures

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 Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Republican Conference Vice Chair Mike Johnson (R-La), Congresswoman Stephanie Bice (Okla.), and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) at today’s leadership press stakeout to urge President Biden to take accountability for the crises that his far-left policies have created. Whip Scalise highlighted the hypocrisy of…

The Pandemic Response Report

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Pandemic Response Report is a weekly newsletter about America’s response to the coronavirus pandemic from Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis (SSOCC) Republicans. What’s Important Newly Released Documents Contradict Fauci Testimony to Congress:​ According to documents obtained by The Intercept, the U.S. government gave $3.1 million to the health…

Scalise: Biden Administration has disbursed less than 11% of the emergency rental assistance funds allocated by Congress

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 Today, House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) sent a letter to the Select Subcommittee Chairman James Clyburn (D-S.C.) emphasizing the Biden Administration’s embarrassing lack of desire to deliver emergency rental assistance to millions of suffering families and reiterated the need for the Chairman to follow…

Scalise: Families Are Going to Get Kicked in the Gut by Democrats' Tax Increases

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Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox Business Network’s Kudlow to discuss how Washington Democrats' far-left policies will hurt families and workers. Whip Scalise pointed out that Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee just voted to raise taxes on oil and gas, which would raise utility costs for families and ship jobs overseas. In addition,…

Scalise & Comer Investigate Claims that the Biden Admin is Politicizing Booster Shot Recommendations

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 Today, House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) and House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) sent a letter to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expressing concerns that the Biden White House was pressuring career FDA officials to recommend booster shots before the agency…

Democrats Block Scalise Amendment Prohibiting Increase in Electricity Costs for American Hospitals

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Today, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) offered an amendment to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's portion of the Build Back China Act that would prevent the oil and natural gas tax in the underlying bill from going into effect until the Environmental Protection Agency can ensure that it won't cause increased health care costs. Whip Scalise released the following…

Biden's Vaccine Mandate is an Authoritarian Power Grab

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TOPLINE: On September 9th, President Biden announced that he would mandate businesses – with 100 or more employees – to require their personnel to be vaccinated or be tested for the coronavirus each week. If companies fail to comply, they will face steep fines. This is an unprecedented, authoritarian mandate that would affect an…

Scalise Honors Lives Lost on the Twentieth Anniversary of the September 11th Terrorist Attacks

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 Today, on the twentieth anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement remembering the lives that were lost:   “Twenty years ago, terrorists sought to destroy the American spirit and dismantle our way of life. September 11th will forever be remembered as a solemn day where innocent people…