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Advocacy Updates ~ December 21, 2020 December 21, 2020 On December 8, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) that ensures Americans have priority access to COVID-19 vaccines developed in the United States or procured by the United States government. The EO does not go into detail about the U.S. government’s vaccine distribution plan, but the language of the EO does suggest that a plan is being developed for international access to U.S. government-acquired vaccines (Section 4 ...

Trump blasts Covid relief bill just passed by Congress, demands changes Dartunorro Clark © Provided by NBC News In surprising comments, President Donald Trump on Tuesday night shredded a just-passed massive Covid-19 relief package, saying the legislation contains measures that have nothing to do with the pandemic and is too stingy on payments to average Americans. "I am asking Congress to amend this bill and increase the ridiculously low $600 (direct payment) to $2,000 or $4,0...

Based on the Snellen chart, ophthalmologists tell us that 20/20 vision is clearer than 20/21. And, based on several of this weeks leading stories, 2020 is making its move to bring some of this years leading stories into sharper relief. F D A The US Food and Drug Administrationauthorized the first COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use in the United States. Millions of doses of the Pfizer and BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, which has been found to be 95% effective, were shipped to distribution site...

Last week, the United Kingdom (UK) moved forward with its first inoculations of the approved Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine. The United States (US) approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Friday, 11 December, and will begin inoculations this coming week. The European Union (EU) continues to stress safety over speed in its vaccine approval process and has yet to follow suit. The UK sealed the deal on a number of Free Trade Agreements, while talks with the EU continue without any significant br...

Tuesday, December 15, 2020 Last week, the United Kingdom (UK) moved forward with its first inoculations of the approved Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.  The United States (US) approved the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine on Friday, 11 December, and will begin inoculations this coming week.  The European Union (EU) continues to stress safety over speed in its vaccine approval process and has yet to follow suit. The UK sealed the deal on a number of Free Trade Agreements, while talks with t...

With a dwindling number of in-session legislative days before the end of the current 116 th Congress, the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate are working to conclude their work before adjourning at the end of the year. The top “must-pass” legislative priorities remain finalizing the Fiscal Year 2021 appropriations process, the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and perhaps another round of economic stimulus related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The current appropriations Con...

Jordan of all places. come on. at some point, this is why he was elected, this is immoral behavior and we continue to go along with it as though its just how things are done in washington, d.c. we sent him to d.c. to say no what he should have done is said im not signing this. i will only agree to a clean six-week continuing resolution, we will come back from christmas in january and we will have a conversation about this monstrosity.nd but im not going to sign this. he told us last year he was ...

Billion for a border security in jordan of all places. come on, at some point, this is why he was elected, this is immoral behavior and we continue to go along with it as though its just how things are done in washington, d.c. we sent ten to d.c. to say no and what he should have done is said im not signing this, i will only agree to a clean six-week continuing resolution, we will come back from christmas in january and we will have a conversation about this monstrosity but im not going to sign ...

Twitter who is our bigger enemy, jay powell or chairman xi of china? >> to be a fly on the wall for that meeting. congressional leaders reached a deal yesterday, to extend government funding for four more weeks to avoid a government-wide shutdown. the continuing resolution was unveiled by house democrats and does not include funds for president trumps border wall, trump has demanded money for the wall along the u.s. mexico border in exchange for his signature. the stopgap bill would fund a 3.1...

Senator brown, one of your freshman, had this to say. >> i would say disappointed is an understatement. my worst fear. back on the campaign trail, the continuing resolution was done to reenable defense and i thought i heard the president say last time. >> his worst fear wouldve been the other two alternatives. the one year continuing resolution. or a sequester which would have been worse for the defense department. it wouldve gone down $71 billion in december. when you have divided government in...