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Mrs. Overall

(6,839 posts)
Wed May 13, 2020, 11:45 AM May 2020

GOP senator blocks resolution calling for CDC guidelines to be released

Source: MSN

GOP Sen. Mike Braun (Ind.) on Wednesday blocked a resolution calling for the release of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) guidance on reopening businesses.

Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) tried to pass the resolution amid reports that Trump administration officials had sidelined the document. "The president is not a doctor. The president is not a scientist. Many don't even believe he's a stable genius like he thinks he is. ... Anybody who would say drink bleach, use bleach to protect yourself is not much of a medical expert," Schumer said from the Senate floor.

"I wish President Trump and his aides could be trusted to tell the American people the truth about this public health crisis. ... The point is that America needs and must have the candid guidance of our best scientists unfiltered, unedited, uncensored by President Trump or his political minions," Schumer added.

The Associated Press reported earlier Wednesday that the guidance from the CDC on how to reopen businesses and institutions shuttered during the coronavirus outbreak was more detailed and restrictive than guidelines issued by the White House task force.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-senator-blocks-resolution-calling-for-cdc-guidelines-to-be-released/ar-BB142daC?ocid=msedgntp

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GOP senator blocks resolution calling for CDC guidelines to be released (Original Post) Mrs. Overall May 2020 OP
I Faux pas May 2020 #1
WTF?! sakabatou May 2020 #2
So....leak 'em if you got 'em! Champion Jack May 2020 #3
Another henchman in Cheeto's service RhodeIslandOne May 2020 #4
Well, we already have 1/2 the loaf. It was secretly released a few days ago and one can bet.... machoneman May 2020 #5
Your talking about this document, right? cayugafalls May 2020 #15
bookmarking for these links liberalla May 2020 #28
Good God in Butter Botany May 2020 #6
Another covidiot stands up UpInArms May 2020 #7
TYPICAL GD REPUBE: CurtEastPoint May 2020 #8
Republicans again Midnightwalk May 2020 #9
Generalissimo Corpulente ain't the only sociopath in Washington Grokenstein May 2020 #10
This is getting beyond criminal... cayugafalls May 2020 #11
This! pandr32 May 2020 #12
This is insanity. BarbD May 2020 #13
About GOP Sen. Mike Braun, became senator 2019.He does NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RE- ELECTION. Stuart G May 2020 #14
The info on Braun you provided makes this story even more disturbing and disgusting. Mrs. Overall May 2020 #16
This is how "evil works." Shumer tried, but the GOP is evil..Not even a simple vote on a resolution Stuart G May 2020 #17
So this Braun character likes to have BLOOD ON HIS HANDS, because after all party over turbinetree May 2020 #18
Thank You for pointing that out..."BLOOD ON HIS HANDS"..(and I think he is proud of that blood... Stuart G May 2020 #20
Your welcome..............This is just amazing, they don't even bat an eye about it, turbinetree May 2020 #23
I honestly believe that there is NOTHING that exists only in one copy. not_the_one May 2020 #19
This document is already widely distributed. erronis May 2020 #25
support the USPS noneof_theabove May 2020 #21
Anything and everything to protect their demented despot dalton99a May 2020 #22
The number of death in Indiana is on the rise Historic NY May 2020 #24
REPUBLICANS ARE MASS MURDERERS. ALL OF THEM!!! OMGWTF May 2020 #26
Ummm, maybe I'm confused, but Tucker08087 May 2020 #27
Zero leadership. Zero accountability. truthisfreedom May 2020 #29
I watched documentary on PBS show American Experience about the 1918 Spanish Flu. PBS is Pepsidog May 2020 #30
GOP: The party of life. SergeStorms May 2020 #31

machoneman

(3,952 posts)
5. Well, we already have 1/2 the loaf. It was secretly released a few days ago and one can bet....
Wed May 13, 2020, 11:59 AM
May 2020

every state's top health department copied it from the Web and gave it to staff. However, the other 1/2 the loaf is the fact that although the general public can easily access it, Braun and the R-Scums know most won't and the tribe that supports Trumpy would not abide by its recommendations anyway, now would they?

Botany

(70,291 posts)
6. Good God in Butter
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:02 PM
May 2020

The GOP has become a death cult. We are soon going to be at 100,000 deaths and 1.5 million
active cases of C-19 and "they" don't want us to read the CDC guidelines?

The beast is running wild across America and these motherfuckers are thinking about politics
and how things are look instead of what can be done to mitigate the illness and deaths.

CurtEastPoint

(18,552 posts)
8. TYPICAL GD REPUBE:
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:04 PM
May 2020

in 2018 Braun's personal finance disclosure listed assets worth between $35 million and $96 million.[11]

Health care
Braun opposes the Affordable Care Act, supported efforts at the congressional level to repeal it, and supports a lawsuit to roll it back

Immigration
Braun has said, "building the wall must be the first step to any solution" on illegal immigration.[31][30] He opposes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as minors, known as DREAMers.[31]

Tax reform
Braun supported the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, the Republican Party's tax reform bill.

Free trade
In 2018, Braun supported President Trump's trade and tariff policies, saying that they have "yielded phenomenal results."[30][32] Previously, he supported free trade policies.[32]

Abortion rights
Braun opposes abortion.[30]

LGBT rights
Asked for his view on the legalization of same-sex marriage, Braun said, "I believe in traditional marriage."[30][33] He fought to keep marriage defined as "between a man and a woman" in the Indiana Republican Party platform.

Donald Trump impeachment trial
During Donald Trump's impeachment trial, Mike Braun voted to acquit Trump.

Midnightwalk

(3,131 posts)
9. Republicans again
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:05 PM
May 2020

Blame trump and that senator, but the other republican senators allow it.

Republicans hate using science in decisions. This is inexcusable.

cayugafalls

(5,631 posts)
11. This is getting beyond criminal...
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:28 PM
May 2020

We pay for the CDC. Our tax dollars. Quit f'ing around and show us the documents.

Got to love Schumer. He says it like it is.

BarbD

(1,191 posts)
13. This is insanity.
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:36 PM
May 2020

To think we have to wait until November to bring reason and sanity to this country is mind boggling.

Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
14. About GOP Sen. Mike Braun, became senator 2019.He does NOT HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT RE- ELECTION.
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:39 PM
May 2020

...The GOP doesn't miss a trick!...So, the person who blocked this vote, is safe from worrying about his own re-election until 2024. He doesn't give a sh*t. Why should he? That is over 4 years away. No one will remember this awful move, stopping a resolution, (just a resolution) to get voted on...

.....from Wikipedia : Assumed office, January 3, 2019....check it out at link below:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Braun

Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
17. This is how "evil works." Shumer tried, but the GOP is evil..Not even a simple vote on a resolution
Wed May 13, 2020, 12:54 PM
May 2020

to do something like releasing the ..."guidance on reopening businesses"

"calling for the release of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) guidance on reopening businesses

....A simple vote...asking for guidance on reopening from a government agency which everyone (all states) support and pay for.

___________________________________________________________________________________________
NOT EVEN ALLOWING A VOTE IN THE SENATE...WHICH THE PUKES NOW CONTROL, SO THE VOTE WOULD NOT HAVE PASSED...(think about that one for a while..), and also it was a vote on a non - binding resolution..just for guidance of what the CDC proposed...not asking a lot, what is the guidance from CDC?

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
18. So this Braun character likes to have BLOOD ON HIS HANDS, because after all party over
Wed May 13, 2020, 01:04 PM
May 2020

country and its citizens.............. he did vote to retain the asshole running around in the white house who also has BLOOD ON HIS HANDS.................does he have a mask or gloves, or does he just say fuck it and says to hell with social distancing............let the libertarian mantra continue of BS, business over health, greed over health .....................America and the citizens your on your fucking own........

Stuart G

(38,365 posts)
20. Thank You for pointing that out..."BLOOD ON HIS HANDS"..(and I think he is proud of that blood...
Wed May 13, 2020, 01:10 PM
May 2020
on his hands)...very sad indeed.....:

turbinetree

(24,632 posts)
23. Your welcome..............This is just amazing, they don't even bat an eye about it,
Wed May 13, 2020, 01:52 PM
May 2020

no second thoughts, its just shows the how much of a megalomaniac he and all of them are.............they just don't give a care..........Blood On There hands...................

 

not_the_one

(2,227 posts)
19. I honestly believe that there is NOTHING that exists only in one copy.
Wed May 13, 2020, 01:09 PM
May 2020

EVERYTHING IS COPIED/SAVED before submitted.

Which means EVERYTHING can be leaked.

Not having access to reports and supporting documents is happening ONLY because the people holding them are cowards (can we say Mueller? I thought we could...) and care more about their personal standing than the continuing existence of this country.

If people are afraid of "retribution" (whatever that may be, and in what form), the rest of us need to assure them that we will have their back.

THEY have to release the info, and WE have to make sure nothing adverse happens to them because of it.

People may have been fired. But they can be re-hired on January 21st, complete with back pay and pension. Biden needs to make sure that happens for every single person who has been "punished" for standing up to the turd.

If they are prosecuted, they need to know all will be made right, come January 21st. We can do what they do, and hire lawyers to delay and delay and delay. It would be easy to delay until January 21st.

If anyone is to receive retribution, it is the asswipes who purposely block release of information that the people have a right to know, to curry favor with the turd.

erronis

(14,955 posts)
25. This document is already widely distributed.
Wed May 13, 2020, 02:19 PM
May 2020
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6883779-CDC-Business-Plans.html

I know I went to that site and downloaded the original PDF (link on right of site) so if the cretins try to pull it down, it'll continue to be live.

I'm waiting for all of dump's tax records, etc., to be published. Strange that they haven't leaked very much ---- yet.

noneof_theabove

(410 posts)
21. support the USPS
Wed May 13, 2020, 01:35 PM
May 2020

get a post card and fill you with something nice and timely, like draw a bloody hand, you call but not mine.
Then send it to him.
If you can afford it do several.

when they dump bag[s] of post card in his office maybe he will get a clue.

Tucker08087

(621 posts)
27. Ummm, maybe I'm confused, but
Wed May 13, 2020, 02:36 PM
May 2020

Weren’t the guidelines for safe practices for business and municipalities to safely open written for businesses, municipalities, and future customers to follow? Why would they hide these from the groups they were intended to help? (And yes, I know the actual answer...)

Pepsidog

(6,252 posts)
30. I watched documentary on PBS show American Experience about the 1918 Spanish Flu. PBS is
Wed May 13, 2020, 03:11 PM
May 2020

allowing it to be viewed for free for now. It's a warning to us now. The headlines back then were exactly the same. Initially the virus would appear and disappear in the Spring of 1918. By October with the movement of people around the country for WWI, there were 100,000's of deaths a month. It wasn't until the virus had spread to most of the population did it slow down. But that virus was especially deadly to otherwise healthy males 20-29. I remember speaking to my grandfather and grandmother who both were from large families of 9-11 kids and they both lost siblings to the virus. In Philadelphia people just dropped dead on the sidewalk. We better heed the lesson history provides.

SergeStorms

(18,903 posts)
31. GOP: The party of life.
Wed May 13, 2020, 03:39 PM
May 2020

Until you leave the womb, then they don't give a shit about you at all, even if you're a republican constituent. BUT, if you're a large GOP donor you get to sit on their lap, and get tested every hour, on the hour. They do have their priorities.

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