Source: United States Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND)
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) joined Senator John Thune (R-SD) and several of his Senate Republican colleagues in introducing a resolution to nullify a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) interim final rule (IFR) that requires all staff and volunteers in Head Start educational facilities to be fully vaccinated and wear a mask and mandates all children two years of age and older to wear a mask, including when they are playing outside. Congress can consider this resolution using expedited procedures under the Congressional Review Act and can pass it by a simple majority vote.
“It’s truly amazing the lengths Joe Biden will go to push mask and vaccine mandates on Americans. This mandate goes so far as to force toddlers to wear masks even while they play outside. This isn’t about science or public health, it’s about control. Our resolution supports parents’ rights and nullifies the latest Biden COVID-19 mandate on Head Start facilities, which serve children at or below the poverty line,” said Senator Cramer.
“Not only is this decision to police schoolyard activities yet another affront to parents’ rights by the Biden administration, even worse is nothing about this nationwide policy is based on science or common sense,” said Senator Thune. “A toddler mask mandate highlights everything that’s wrong with Washington, which is why I introduced this common-sense resolution that would prohibit the Biden administration from enforcing or implementing this intrusive, one-size-fits-all Washington rule on America’s children.”
Senators Cramer and Thune are joined on the resolution by John Barrasso (R-WY), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Boozman (R-AR), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Steve Daines (R-MT), John Hoeven (R-ND), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS), Jim Inhofe (R-OK), Mike Lee (R-UT), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Jim Risch (R-ID), Mike Rounds (R-SD), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Roger Wicker (R-MS).