Lawmakers Demand Answers From Governors Who Forced Nursing Homes to Accept CCP Virus Patients

Republican lawmakers on the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis sent letters on June 15 to the governors of five states that mandated that nursing homes take in COVID-19 patients despite federal pandemic guidance to the contrary. The letters, signed by five Republicans on the CCP virus committee, were sent to the governors of New York, Michigan, California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The letter demands records on the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths at nursing homes, executive pandemic orders and directives on nursing homes, and other relevant documents and communications. “The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected the elderly, especially those living in nursing homes and other long-term care facilities,” the letters state. “We write seeking information, at a granular level, about the science and information used to inform your decision to mandate nursing homes and long-term care facilities admit untested and contagious COVID-19 patients from hospitals.”

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo issued an executive order on March 25 prohibiting nursing homes from denying admission to patients solely on the basis of having been infected with the CCP virus, also known as the novel coronavirus. Cuomo issued a companion executive order on May 10 that blocked hospitals from sending infected patients to nursing homes, but continued the mandate against denying residents admission to nursing homes based on testing results. Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer issued a similar order on April 15. The state health departments in California, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania issued similar guidance and directives in mid-to-late March. All five of the governors are Democrats.

Rich Azzopardi, senior adviser to Cuomo, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times, “These craven political hacks sent this same partisan document to several other states—all of which happen to have Democratic governors—apparently seeking some sort of election-year boost and to misdirect attention away from the oversight committee’s investigation into the federal pandemic response.” Azzopardi pointed out that current New York state law prohibits nursing homes from accepting patients for whom they can’t provide adequate care. The state’s law is similar to the federal guidelines issued on March 13, which advised that nursing homes only take in patients with actual and suspected CCP virus infections if they were capable of following the quarantine guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The same federal guidance called on nursing homes to restrict all nonessential visits, among other measures, to protect elderly Americans, who faced the greatest risk of a fatal outcome in case of an infection. The offices of the governors of the four other states didn’t respond to requests for comment by press time.

Some 6,360 nursing home residents in New York died from the CCP virus, more than a quarter of the state’s total pandemic death toll, according to the letter sent to Cuomo. More than 15,500 nursing home patients died from the virus in California, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. “Just about the worst possible thing to do is knowingly introduce coronavirus to the most vulnerable populations, yet that’s exactly what several states did by mandating nursing homes accept infected patients,” Select Subcommittee member Jackie Walorski (R-Ind.) said. “These misguided policies deserve close scrutiny, and the leaders who put them in place have a lot of tough questions to answer.” New Jersey suffered the greatest nursing home death toll in the nation, with 6,432 deaths, accounting for 10 percent of the state’s entire nursing home population. Florida, which banned COVID-19 transfers to nursing homes, lost just 1 percent of its sizable nursing home population, according to ProPublica. Michigan and Pennsylvania lost 3 percent of their nursing home populations to the virus. California, which quickly changed course after adopting guidelines similar to New York, lost 1 percent of all nursing home residents, according to the letters from the committee.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/lawmakers-demand-answers-from-governors-who-forced-nursing-homes-to-accept-ccp-virus-patients_3390612.html

https://www.cms.gov/files/document/qso-20-14-nh-revised.pdf

https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Letter-to-NY-Gov-Cuomo-061520.pdf

https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/no-20230-continuing-temporary-suspension-and-modification-laws-relating-disaster-emergency

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Lawmakers Demand Answers From Governors Who Forced Nursing Homes to Accept CCP Virus Patients

Harvard Professor Pleads Not Guilty in US to Lying About China Ties

BOSTON—A Harvard University professor pleaded not guilty on June 16 to charges that he lied to US authorities about his ties to a recruitment program run by the Chinese regime and funding he received from the Chinese government for research. Charles Lieber, the former chair of Harvard’s chemistry and chemical biology department, pleaded not guilty to making false statements during a video conference held before a federal magistrate judge in Boston. Marc Mukasey, his lawyer, said Lieber, 61, will fight the charges and that the “government has this wrong.” Lieber’s case is one of the highest-profile to emerge from a U.S. Justice Department crackdown on Chinese influence within universities amid concerns about spying and intellectual property theft by the Chinese regime. The case centers on China’s Thousand Talents Program, which U.S. authorities say the Chinese regime uses to entice overseas Chinese citizens and foreign researchers to share their knowledge with China in exchange for perks including research funding.

Prosecutors said Lieber in 2011 became a “strategic scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology in China and from 2012 to 2015 contractually participated in the Thousand Talents Program. Under his contract, Lieber was paid up to $50,000 per month and living expenses of up to $158,000, prosecutors said. He also was awarded more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab, prosecutors said. In exchange, Lieber agreed to organize international conferences, publish articles and apply for patents in the university’s name, prosecutors said. During a 2018 interview with federal investigators, prosecutors said, the nanoscience specialist falsely stated he was never asked to participate in the Thousand Talents Program. When the U.S. National Institutes of Health, which funded his research, asked Harvard whether he had failed to disclose his ties to the program, Lieber had the Ivy League school falsely claim he had not participated in it, prosecutors said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/harvard-professor-pleads-not-guilty-in-us-to-lying-about-china-ties_3390594.html

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>>9640795 Lawmakers Demand Answers From Governors Who Forced Nursing Homes to Accept CCP Virus Patients

Pelosi Keeping House Out of DC to Give Dems More Campaign Time as Constituent Services Suffer, House GOPer Claims

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is keeping the House of Representatives from joining the Senate in the nation’s capital full time because she fears Democrats could lose their majority in November, according to a key congressional Republican. “I think it’s pretty telling, if she doesn’t want her members coming back to D.C., she really believes there is a need for them to be back in their districts,” Rep. Rodney Davis (R-Ill.) told The Epoch Times on June 16. “And that tells me she is more worried about keeping their majority than what many prognosticators have given her the chance to do,” Davis said. Davis is the ranking Republican on the House Administration Committee, which oversees the daily operations of the House of Representatives. A spokesman for Pelosi didn’t immediately respond to The Epoch Times’ request for comment.

Democrats regained the House majority in the 2018 congressional elections after losing it in 2010; Republicans hold the majority in the Senate. Davis and two Republican colleagues on the panel—Reps. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) and Mark Walker (R-N.C.)—challenged Pelosi in a June 12 letter first reported on June 15 by The Epoch Times to “immediately expedite the roll-out of support assistance to offices, making it possible for staff and members to work in a safe environment” and to return the House to Capitol Hill to work alongside the Senate. Davis rejected fears of the CCP virus—also known as the novel coronavirus—as justification for not bringing the House back to the Capitol. “We’ve already demonstrated we can safely return the House … the Senate has been in D.C. almost weekly since the beginning of May,” Davis said. “We have not seen a spike in COVID-19 cases in the Senate even though the average age of a senator makes them much closer to the most vulnerable population we been told about by the professionals than House members.”

In early May, Pelosi brought the House back to Washington temporarily to vote on her $3 trillion Health and Economic Recovery Omnibus Emergency Solutions (HEROES) Act economic recovery package and a proposal to allow House members to vote by proxy. Davis said the ability of representatives’ staffs to help constituents with problems with the federal government is also hurt by keeping the House out of the Capitol. With the Capitol staff, many of whom are longtime employees and have connections to the bureaucracy, working at home and being more difficult to reach, the district staff has had a harder time getting the information they need to help constituents. “We have seen an exponential increase in the number of cases that we’re dealing with in district offices,” Davis told The Epoch Times. “In my office alone, we’ve had 784 constituent cases related to travel restrictions, economic impact payments, unemployment, and others, and that is almost double the next highest amount handled in the first five months of any year since 2013.”

Caseworkers in other congressional offices on both sides of Congress told The Epoch Times of similar experiences in recent interviews. “We are inundated every single day with calls from ‘Where is my IRS refund,’ to ‘I never received my stimulus,’ and ‘I did receive my [unemployment] debit card but it didn’t come in a government envelope, so I shredded it thinking it was a credit card offer,’” said the chief caseworker for a congressman representing a suburban southern district. “Also, we get a very big bulk of calls from people who have not received their unemployment benefits. They say they cannot get through to talk to anyone and cannot get through on their website,” added the caseworker, who asked not to be named. Similarly, the constituent services staff chief for a senator representing a midwestern state, who also requested anonymity, told The Epoch Times their caseload has increased from approximately 300 to more than 1,400 since March, necessitating the temporary diversion of six staffers to help the six regular caseworkers.

Democratic campaign strategist Jim Manley, former communications director for then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, told The Epoch Times on June 16 that he is skeptical of the idea that Pelosi is worried about November. “If the Senate isn’t going to do much of anything, and [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell (R-Ky.) has made it abundantly clear that they are not, I’m not sure how much the Democratic leadership needs to worry about keeping the House in session if the Senate won’t take up what they are passing. Because the only thing McConnell cares about is confirming [Trump] nominees,” Manley said.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/pelosi-keeping-house-out-of-d-c-to-give-dems-more-campaign-time-as-constituent-services-suffer-house-goper-claims_3390699.html

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Canada, U.S. Confirm Plan to Extend Border Restrictions by Another 30 Days

OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Canada and the United States will continue to limit non-essential travel between the two countries until at least July 21. Despite mounting pressure from business interests and border communities, however, Trudeau is offering no clues about how the border restrictions will be eased when the time finally comes. The 30-day restrictions were first imposed in March in the face of the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic, and have now been extended three times.

While the measures prohibit discretionary travel like vacations and shopping trips, essential workers, trade shipments and temporary foreign workers are still allowed to cross the border. Communities near the Canada-U.S. border that depend on a steady flow of traffic and the ability to move between the two countries have been growing impatient as provinces and states alike continue to gradually restart their economies. In the U.S., however, fears of a second wave of COVID-19 have been escalating in recent days as newly reopened states begin to see increases in their active caseloads and hospitalization rates.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/canada-u-s-confirm-plan-to-extend-border-restrictions-by-another-30-days_3390294.html

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>>9640795 Lawmakers Demand Answers From Governors Who Forced Nursing Homes to Accept CCP Virus Patients

Not sure if this has been caught.. did anyone notice the House Rep, in the back on her phone..during this fake show of solidarity..kek . These people just make it too easy to meme the hell out of their insanity.

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I wouldn't doubt it, not a good look just the same, it really shows just how fake and phony they really are.

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Carol Leavell Barr, wife of Kentucky Congressman Andy Barr, dies in Lexington home

Carol Leavell Barr, the wife of U.S. Rep. Andy Barr, died Tuesday night at the family's home in Lexington, according to Barr's staff. “Congressman Andy Barr’s wife Carol passed away suddenly tonight at the family home in Lexington," Barr's Chief of Staff Mary Rosado said in a statement.

"During this tragic time, we respectfully ask for privacy for Congressman Barr and his family to grieve Mrs. Barr being called home to heaven. Congressman Barr may release a more detailed statement at a later date, but right now is solely focused on being a father to his two beautiful daughters.” No further information was provided. Carol Leavell Barr previously served as the executive director for the Henry Clay Center for Statesmanship in Lexington and married her husband in 2008. She was 39.

https://www.indystar.com/story/news/politics/2020/06/16/reports-carol-leavell-barr-wife-u-s-rep-andy-barr-dies/3203915001/