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… Read more »

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  Teachers Can Return to the Classroom without the Vaccine: Last week, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky stated that teachers do not need to get vaccinated before schools can safely reopen.… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox Business Network's Mornings with Maria to discuss Democrats' partisan $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill that comes as over $1 trillion remains unspent from previous bipartisan relief bills. Whip Scalise also highlighted the bipartisan opposition to President Biden's assault on American energy production and the devastating impacts his… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Committee on Natural Resources Ranking Member Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.), Congresswoman Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.), and Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.) penned an op-ed for Fox News outlining the dangerous magnitude of President Biden's executive order banning new oil and gas exploration on federal lands and waters. The op-ed… Read more »

TOPLINE: Last night, Senators voted to include important bipartisan amendments to limit the damage the Biden Administration can do with a mammoth $2 trillion COVID-relief package. As the budget returns to the House of Representatives with these amendments included, will progressive Democrats still support it? Republicans continue to oppose President Biden's mammoth $2… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Congressman Jody Hice (R-Ga.), and Republican Conference Vice Chairman Mike Johnson (R-La.) today announced the reintroduction of the Free Speech Fairness Act, legislation designed to repeal the Johnson Amendment's censorship of 501(c)3 employees, including religious leaders, and restore their First Amendment rights. “For more than 60… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) delivered a speech on the House Floor against House Democrats' resolution to remove Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) from committees. Whip Scalise denounced the comments made by Rep. Greene prior to her election and made it abundantly clear that the comments she made are completely inappropriate. However, the effort to block a duly… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Congressman Kelly Armstrong (R-N.D.) and 83 House Republicans to introduce the Keystone XL Pipeline Construction and Jobs Preservation Act. This legislation authorizes the construction and operation of the Keystone XL Pipeline and declares that a Presidential permit is not required.… Read more »

House Republican Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Fox News Channel's America's Newsroom to discuss President Biden's misguided priorities regarding the Coronavirus vaccine distribution. Whip Scalise emphasized how the Biden Administration wanted to give the vaccine to terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, and now illegal immigrants while American citizens - including frontline workers and… Read more »

TOPLINE: Just two weeks after his inauguration, President Biden abandoned all pretense of bipartisanship and decided to ram a partisan budget reconciliation through Congress. Critically, President Biden's plan contains a job-killing $15-an-hour minimum wage, billions in unneeded bailout funds for state governments, and a whole host of other measures that will destabilize our recovering… Read more »