{"id":1840314,"date":"2023-02-08T18:20:02","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T23:20:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1840314"},"modified":"2023-02-08T18:20:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T23:20:26","slug":"house-votes-to-kill-travel-vax-mandate-for-foreign-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/house-votes-to-kill-travel-vax-mandate-for-foreign-travelers\/","title":{"rendered":"House Votes To Kill Travel Vax Mandate For Foreign Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fhouse-votes-to-kill-travel-vax-mandate-for-foreign-travelers%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=1840314&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-->\n<p>Wednesday&#8217;s vote by the Republican-led House was to repeal the requirement that foreign travellers have proof of COVID vaccination in order to fly to the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Seven Democrats voted with the GOP majority in passing the legislation <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/Votes\/2023116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legislation 227-201<\/a>Sending the bill to the Democrat led Senate, where it faces long odds.<\/p>\n<p>However, Republicans who oppose the election win the vote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/travelers\/proof-of-vaccination.html#:~:text=Noncitizens%20who%20are%20nonimmigrants%20and,States%20from%20a%20foreign%20country.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has some guidelines<\/a> These regulations require that adult visitors seeking to enter the United States via air must show proof of having been fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to boarding a flight.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Thomas Massie (R\u2013KY), who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/185\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Introduced the bill<\/a>CDC requirements are confusing because many immigrants cross the southern border ungoverned. \u201cWhere\u2019s the logic in that?\u201d He said.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Democrats\u2019 basic argument against my bill to end the COVID-19 mandate on international air visitors is this: Congress should defer to bureaucrats because \u201cscience is hard\u201d and Democrats aren\u2019t qualified to vote on laws affecting basic human rights. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T30MelBhu2\">pic.twitter.com\/T30MelBhu2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepThomasMassie\/status\/1623439449722871811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) said Republicans are prioritizing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankPallone\/status\/1623445915997548547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">politics over science<\/a>\u201d and warned unvaccinated individuals could bring new, dangerous variants into the country.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Republicans are bringing their second bill in as many weeks to the House floor today that questions the safety of COVID-19 vaccines and undermines our public health agencies. I\u2019m leading the opposition to this dangerous bill. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/INb0Zeqmrg\">pic.twitter.com\/INb0Zeqmrg<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rep. Frank Pallone (@FrankPallone) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FrankPallone\/status\/1623445915997548547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The federal government is expected to let the coronavirus public health emergency expire in May.<\/p>\n<p>Pallone acknowledged policy-change discussions are warranted, but accused Republicans of rushing partisan legislation forward without up-to-date input from public health officials. To that end, he took issue with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/house-bill\/185\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">clause in the bill<\/a> that blocks \u201cany successor or subsequent order\u201d from the CDC requiring foreigners traveling by air to show proof of COVID\u201319 vaccination as a condition on entering the United States.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1 million deaths in the United States have been attributed to COVID-19 since it first emerged in late 2019. While rates are far below the peaks during the height of the pandemic, the CDC <a href=\"https:\/\/covid.cdc.gov\/covid-data-tracker\/#trends_weeklydeaths_select_00\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports weekly deaths<\/a> attributed to COVID hovering between 2,500 and 4,400 since the beginning of this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-touts-americas-possibilities-in-state-of-the-union-address\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">During his State of the Union address on Tuesday<\/a>, President Joe Biden talked about the United States emerging from the grip of a years-long pandemic. \u201cAnd today, COVID no longer controls our lives,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican-led House voted Wednesday to block the requirement that foreign travelers have proof of COVID vaccination to fly into the United States. Seven Democrats joined with the GOP majority to pass the legislation 227-201, sending the bill to the Democrat-led Senate where it faces long odds. Still, the vote represents a triumph for Republicans &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1840317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[5542,3653,3759,5527,3951,4380,8136,4030],"class_list":["post-1840314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-foreign","tag-house","tag-kill","tag-mandate","tag-travel","tag-travelers","tag-vax","tag-votes"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840314","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1840314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1840314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1840317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1840314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1840314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1840314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}