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House Republicans Repudiate Their Military Constituents
New caucus chair Elise Stefanik leaves her Fort Drum constituents at the mercy of debt collectors.
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Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) introduces former Vice President Mike Pence and Karen Pence to speak to Army 10th Mountain Division soldiers in Fort Drum, New York, January 17, 2021.
A few hours before House Republicans voted overwhelmingly to promote Elise Stefanik to the partyâs third-ranking postâthat of chair of their caucusâthat very same caucus, as well as Stefanik herself, voted on a straight party line against the Comprehensive Debt Collection Improvement Act. The bill includes a provision that would protect military service members from predatory debt collection.
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The report did not specify the outside experts who may have conflicts. However, the report singled out the EcoHealth Alliance, a New York-based virus research group and its president, Peter Daszak, one of the most outspoken critics of the theory that the virus came not from an animal host but was leaked accidentally or deliberately by researchers at the Wuhan lab.
EcoHealth Alliance received more than $100 million in U.S. government funding for coronavirus surveillance and research. Mr. Daszak also organized a letter signed by a group of scientists in the early days of the pandemic in 2020 in the British medical journal The Lancet criticizing the lab leak theory as a conspiracy.