{"id":1383809,"date":"2022-03-16T06:32:10","date_gmt":"2022-03-16T10:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383809"},"modified":"2022-03-16T10:35:54","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T14:35:54","slug":"senate-votes-to-repeal-travel-mask-mandates-in-bipartisan-rebuke-of-biden-admin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-votes-to-repeal-travel-mask-mandates-in-bipartisan-rebuke-of-biden-admin\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Votes To Repeal Travel Mask Mandates In Bipartisan Rebuke Of Biden Admin"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-votes-to-repeal-travel-mask-mandates-in-bipartisan-rebuke-of-biden-admin%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1383809&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/03\/Untitled-design-21-copy-3.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>In a rebuke of the Biden administration\u2019s policy, eight Democrats joined Republicans on Tuesday as the Senate passed a resolution to repeal the federal travel mask mandates on public transportation.<\/p>\n<p>The final vote was 57-40, with just one Republican, Mitt Romney of Utah, opposing the resolution, which was proposed by Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY).<\/p>\n<p>But CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/15\/politics\/senate-mask-mandate-vote\/index.html\">noted<\/a> that the resolution is \u201cunlikely to move in the Democratic-led House and would likely be opposed by President Joe Biden. The White House had issued a veto threat against the proposal earlier Tuesday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPaul forced a vote on his resolution using the Congressional Review Act. The act allows senators to overturn federal agencies\u2019 regulations within a certain time frame and can do it by a majority threshold without having to clear the typical 60 votes to overcome a legislative filibuster,\u201d CNN reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration this month announced the federal public transportation mask mandate would be extended through April 18, even though nearly every state has done away with statewide mask requirements (Hawaii will be the last state to do so when the mandate expires on March 25).<\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been demanding Biden and congressional Democrats ease numerous federal mandates designed to combat COVID-19. Paul, an ophthalmologist who has been practicing since 1993, has been a vocal opponent of mask mandates and has repeatedly clashed with the top U.S. immunologist, Dr. Anthony Fauci.<\/p>\n<p>Before the vote, Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) urged his fellow Democrats to oppose Paul\u2019s resolution. He said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has set the date and lawmakers should follow that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInstead, let\u2019s work with the CDC and see what guidance they come up with for this April 18 deadline. That would be much better for public health and much better for our economy,\u201d Kaine said in remarks on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, a member of the Senate Health Committee, mocked the phrase \u201cfollow the science.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince March 2020, unelected bureaucrats have incessantly declared that we should \u2018follow the science.\u2019 But the same bureaucrats continue to defy science by imposing an ineffective and restrictive mask mandate for individuals traveling on public transit and airplanes,\u201d Paul said in a statement before his move to force a vote on the issue. \u201cAs the entire world is learning to live with COVID, the federal government still uses fear-mongering to stubbornly perpetuate its mandates, rather than giving clear-eyed, rational advice on how to best protect yourself from illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the ranking GOP member of the Senate Commerce Committee, said Republicans are making this \u201ccommon-sense request of the administration on behalf of the American people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the rules of government do not comply with common sense, it offends free Americans to have to abide by some silly rule and you can expect the objections we\u2019re hearing from the public,\u201d Wicker said at a news conference.<\/p>\n<p><em>Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent, and ran the Drudge Report from 2010 to 2015. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rebuke of the Biden administration\u2019s policy, eight Democrats joined Republicans on Tuesday as the Senate passed a resolution to repeal the federal travel mask mandates on public transportation.The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1383809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}