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Rep. James Comer (R-KY) made a huge move against Joe Biden on Thursday when he introduced a bill that would block the president from enforcing his COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors.
The Fairness for Federal Contractors Act of 2021 would ban executive agencies from mandating that federal contractors’ employees get vaccinated. It would also force the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to report the ways in which a federal contractor mandate has led to job losses and negatively impacted the national supply chain within 180 days of the legislation’s passage.
“American workers should not be forced to get the jab to keep their job. President Biden’s authoritarian mandate on employees of federal contractors requiring vaccination or termination is unfair to those who support the federal government and jeopardizes services such as defense and border security,” Comer, ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Reform, told Fox News.
The bill has already been signed by every Republican on the House Oversight Committee.
This comes after Biden signed an executive order back in September forcing federal contractors to ensure their employees receive the COVID-19 vaccine, not giving them the option to opt-out with weekly testing. Biden claimed at the time that the mandate would mandate would “decrease the spread of COVID-19, which will decrease worker absence, reduce labor costs, and improve the efficiency of contractors and subcontractors at sites where they are performing work for the Federal Government.”
“Accordingly, ensuring that Federal contractors and subcontractors are adequately protected from COVID-19 will bolster economy and efficiency in Federal procurement,” his executive order states.
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Republicans have also been fighting against Biden’s efforts to get the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) to create a rule requiring businesses with 100 employees or more to put vaccine mandates in place. Earlier this month, OSHA announced the new vaccine rule requiring certain U.S. employers to make sure that all employees are either fully vaccinated by January 4 or subject to weekly testing and mask-wearing.
Republican state attorneys general and governors have fired back with lawsuits, with a federal court ruling in favor of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton just two days after OSHA announced the mandate, issuing a temporary stay to the requirement.
Days later, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered OSHA to “take no steps to implement or enforce the mandate until further court order.” It is expected that this is only the beginning of what will likely be a lengthy legal battle over the mandate.
Red Voice Media would like to make a point of clarification on why we do not refer to any shot related to COVID-19 as a “vaccine.” According to the CDC, the definition of a vaccine necessitates that said vaccine have a lasting effect of at least one year in preventing the contraction of the virus or disease it’s intended to fight. Because all of the COVID-19 shots thus far available have barely offered six months of protection, and even then not absolute, Red Voice Media has made the decision hereafter to no longer refer to the Pfizer, Moderna, or Johnson & Johnson substances as vaccinations.
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