This headline is 100% accurate:

"GOP Attacks Biden Over Pandemic Response While Fighting Key Tools To Curb The Virus"
cnn.com/2021/12/02/pol…
Republicans are quick to blame President Biden for everything that goes wrong, even when they are making things worse on purpose. Ask them how they would improve the situation if they were in charge and their answers are pathetically bad
And it turns out the Republicans are absolutely wrong here.

"But the vaccine mandates have, in fact, proven to be successful in increasing immunization rates, which is one the most effective and life-saving tools to fight the virus."

EXACTLY.
If Republicans had their way we would be doing almost nothing to fight the pandemic and the virus would be running rampant. That would ravage the economy, crush small businesses, kill tons of jobs, make supply chain problems far worse, and cause new business and school closures.
President Biden is unveiling a plan today to keep Americans safe and healthy without last year's awful winter that saw widespread school and business closures and 3,000-4,000 deaths per day at its peak.

A far better strategy than Republicans' plan to let Covid rage unchecked.

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1 Dec
Republicans’ plan to shut down the government on purpose to sabotage our pandemic response is extraordinarily cynical and dangerous.
The government runs out of funding in two days, but rather than work with us to prevent a shutdown, key Republicans in both chambers are instead announcing they want a shutdown to undermine vaccination efforts -- as the potential threat from omicron looms. politico.com/newsletters/pl…
Vaccines are vital to fight this pandemic and keep Americans healthy. Countering vaccination efforts at what may be one of the most critical moments of the pandemic could have disastrous consequences for the American people and the recovering U.S. economy.
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19 Nov
Kevin McCarthy's speech is now longer than the entirety of the Beatles landmark 1965 album "Help!"
Kevin McCarthy's speech is now longer than entirety of Pink Floyd's 1973 classic The Dark Side Of The Moon
Bob Dylan's 1975 masterpiece Blood on the Tracks has a running time of 52 minutes. Kevin McCarthy's speech just passed it in length
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4 Oct
McConnell is full of malarkey.

In 2017 Republicans tried to strip health care from millions, then cut taxes for the rich without paying for it, all on party line votes. They had total control of government, but still needed our help raising the debt ceiling.

We gave it to them.
We helped raise the debt limit when Republicans had total control of government in 2017 because the alternative - refusing to pay America's bills - would have caused a default that wrecked the economy.

That's something neither party should be willing to risk for any reason.
McConnell's claim Democrats are governing "alone" is a lie. The Senate-passed infrastructure bill was negotiated with Republicans, McConnell even voted for it. McConnell is also once again blocking legislation with bipartisan support from even getting a vote, as he famously does.
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13 Jul
Robert MacLean’s response to the killing of Bijan Ghaisar shows that he is the wrong person for this job, and I urge the Department of the Interior’s leadership to reconsider his appointment. My statement: beyer.house.gov/news/documents…
Secretary Haaland’s efforts to strengthen community trust and ensure reform after last summer’s violent crackdown on peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square are admirable and necessary. I worry the task force will not achieve these ends if it is led by Director MacLean.
I have not forgotten that Mr. MacLean refused for years to answer questions from community leaders and Members of Congress, including me, about the shooting of an unarmed man, Bijan Ghaisar, in my district by two officers who served under him in the U.S. Park Police.
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13 Jul
There's been a lot of talk about inflation, especially on days like today when we get consumer-price index data.

The top driver of price increases right now is cars. I know a few things about the auto industry, so let's look under the hood at what's going on with inflation. 1/
First, quick background on the economic conditions: they are extremely promising.

CBO projects record GDP growth, workers' wages are rising, we've added 3 million jobs so far this year, unemployment is falling sharply, and on Thursday the enhanced child tax credit kicks in. 2/
For over a year many Americans couldn't travel and were worried about the economy and their personal finances. Now we have the virus on the run, the American Rescue Plan is putting money in people's pockets, and many are ready to travel again. That brings us back to cars. 3/
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Let's be clear on what just happened here: one of the highest-ranking officials of Egypt’s security state, Abbas Kamel, used meetings with top American policymakers in Washington to try to intimidate an American citizen for his human rights advocacy.
politico.com/news/2021/07/1…
My constituent @soltan is a human rights defender sentenced to life in prison and tortured for *tweets*. The Obama Administration secured his release but years later Sisi's regime still feels so threatened that they took his family members hostage to intimidate him into silence.
The Sisi regime feels emboldened to threaten American citizens on U.S. soil because their widespread human rights violations have had no consequences. Now the head of Egyptian intelligence is trying to make Members of Congress accomplices to Egypt’s authoritarian crackdown.
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