Tonight, I introduced legislation to prevent members of the Armed Forces from being forced to take the COVID-19 vaccine. My bill, HR 3860, prevents federal funds from being used to require a member of the Armed Forces to receive a vaccination against COVID-19. Here is page 1.
Page 2 of HR 3860 prevents adverse disciplinary actions from being taken against service personnel who decline the vaccine.
And here is the Constitutional Authority statement.
Four corporations control 85% of meat processed in the United States. One of these companies is Chinese, one is Brazilian. Prices are going up in the supermarkets. The oligopoly is enabled by over-regulation of small American owned processors by the US government.
The consequences:
Farmers are unable to get a fair price for their livestock, while the price of meat increases in grocery stores. Due to the centralized nature of the processing, shortages sometimes occur, and when outbreaks of food borne illness occur, it affects many states.
The solution:
Our bipartisan, bicameral PRIME Act (which we are about to reintroduce) would allow small processors who comply with state regulations to sell within their states without being overly regulated by USDA.
There’s an inescapable conclusion for why Congress is hyper-partisan:
Voters reward politicians for being partisan.
Some Dems have pledged not to work with any member who voted against certifying electors.
That diminishes their effectiveness, but their voters seem to like it.
I will work with any Democrat to advance legislation that benefits Americans and does not violate the Constitution or my principles.
Emotionally, it can be difficult to work with those who are opposed to so many things I hold dear, but if we agree on one thing, I feel like we owe it to all Americans to work on that one thing.
(1/4)When President Trump launched an attack against an Iranian general in Iraq, the Democrats offered a resolution to assert that any further attacks against Iran would require the proper approval of Congress. I was one of only three Republicans to vote for that resolution.
(2/4)President Trump called me to strongly encourage me not to vote for that resolution, but I told him I had always asserted Congress’ sole authority to declare war when Obama was President and I had to remain consistent.
(3/4)He said if I voted for it:
I would get a primary opponent (true: opponent filed the next day) and
He wouldn’t help me (true: during the race he encouraged the GOP to throw me out of the party)
Very few reporters have accurately described what happened on March 27th when I forced Congress to come to work. The misreporting is so rampant now that we usually don’t even call and ask reporters to fix it. I thought I would do a short thread to clarify.
My intent was not to delay the bill, the bill was not delayed, and the actions I took did not threaten to delay it. I informed Congress 24 hrs (same notice Pelosi gives) in advance, giving plenty of notice for at least 1/2 of Congress to assemble AS THE CONSTITUTION REQUIRES.
I did not insist they follow arcane parliamentary rules. The Constitution says each house shall make its own rules, and each house does, but each house regularly votes to suspend its rules. The Constitution contains laws which neither chamber may suspend, so I qutoed it.
logarithmic plot of cumulative deaths per million for countries
The beginning of each of these curves is a straight line, the slope of which indicates the doubling rate of the virus in a susceptible population.
The curve starts to bend as the “herd” begins to acquire immunity.
Here’s the same plot for states. Due to variations in population density, herd immunity % can be different for different states, but travel between states tends to equalize that.
Most states aren’t at herd immunity yet, but to think that we aren’t approaching it is foolish.