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(Photo : Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Members Of Congress Work On Infrastructure Legislation On Capitol Hill
WASHINGTON, DC - JUNE 23: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) walks back to his office after a bipartisan group of Senators and White House officials came to an agreement over the Biden administrations proposed infrastructure plan at the U.S. Capitol on June 23, 2021 in Washington, DC. After initial negotiations between the White House and Senate Republicans fell through a new bipartisan group of Senators came together with the hopes of reaching a deal for a much need infrastructure spending plan.
COVID Warnings From Washington Rise With The Uptick In Cases Around The Country
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Rep. Steve Scalise, the No. 2 Republican in the House, got vaccinated against COVID-19 on Sunday after months of waiting, citing the rise of the delta variant and increasing cases and hospitalizations, primarily among people who are unvaccinated.
His decision, reported on Nola.com, comes as lawmakers and White House try to reach those hardest to convince and access to get vaccinated. The messaging is delicate as there are also mild cases among people who are vaccinated â including in Washington. These shots need to get into everybody s arm as rapidly as possible, or we re going to be back in a situation in the fall â that we don t yearn for â that we went through last year, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters on Tuesday.
Calling US inflation ‘temporary’, Biden pushes more spending
July 21, 2021
Washington: President Joe Biden sought to tamp down concern about spiraling prices that threaten to dent the US economic recovery, saying the current inflation rise is temporary and not a long-term problem.
He also said one of the best ways to keep the American economy on track was for Congress to greenlight additional federal spending in the form of a major bipartisan infrastructure package, which faces a looming deadline this week in the US Senate.
The president made the case that his administration´s vaccination push and his sweeping domestic agenda, which includes the injection of trillions of dollars into the economy, will take the pressure off of inflation rather than increasing it.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s scheduled vote Wednesday on the bipartisan infrastructure framework appears doomed to fail but that doesn’t mean that the infrastructure plan is dead. Schumer on Monday set in motion the steps to hold a procedural vote on the on the as-yet unfinished infrastructure legislation Wednesday, but Senate Republicans are reportedly united in their intention to vote against moving forward without a final agreement, meaning that the package won’t be able to get the 60 votes needed to advance. “We have a pretty good sense of where our members are. They won’t get 60,” Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD) said. “Our members are committed to actually having a bill and [Congressional Budget Office] scores and all that kind of stuff before they vote to get on a bill.”
Dr. Brian Monahan, the attending physician for Congress, urges vaccinations
Dr. Amesh Adalja of Johns Hopkins calls COVID a pandemic of the unvaccinated
WASHINGTON – A spate of new COVID-19 infections has rippled through Congress, the White House and a band of Texas state lawmakers in recent days, stoking renewed concern among officials in Washington about how best to protect against the virus as the delta variant causes a nationwide spike in cases.
Health officials say the best protection remains vaccination, noting the shots are key to reducing the risks of serious illness, hospitalization and death.
“If you’re a fully vaccinated individual and you’re meeting with somebody who has COVID, you really don’t have much to fear from the virus. The vaccines are very robust,” Dr. Amesh A. Adalja, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, told USA TODAY. “What we’re seeing now in the United States, as the CDC director said, is a pandemic of the