Posted on 10/15/2014 3:46:17 PM PDT by maggief
WASHINGTON, DC -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) today issued the following statement on the growing Ebola crisis:
“Our hearts go out to the health care workers who have contracted the Ebola virus here in the United States, as well as those who have been impacted by it around the globe. We pray for their speedy recovery, and we pray for those who are helping to treat and care for these individuals, including our medical experts and military personnel who are in West Africa to help stem this deadly disease. Concerns about the possibility of an outbreak of this sort prompted the House to provide more funding for the CDC than requested, and the tragic developments seen in recent weeks demonstrate that decision was a prudent one.
“In a September 16 speech in Atlanta, President Obama said the ‘chances of an Ebola outbreak here in the United States are extremely low.’ Since that time, several Americans have been diagnosed with the virus and untold more potentially exposed to it. Today we learned that one individual who has contracted the virus flew to Ohio through the Cleveland airport in the last few days. A temporary ban on travel to the United States from countries afflicted with the virus is something that the president should absolutely consider along with any other appropriate actions as doubts about the security of our air travel systems grow.
“It is also imperative we ensure that federal, state and local agencies, along with our public health infrastructure, are prepared, remain vigilant, and follow proper protocols to identify the virus and take appropriate measures for those who have been exposed to it.
“Numerous committees – including the House Armed Services Committee and the Committees on Appropriations, Homeland Security, Energy & Commerce, and Transportation & Infrastructure – are actively assessing the administration’s response, and hearings have already begun. The Homeland Security Committee held a hearing in Dallas to examine the federal, state, and local response thus far. Tomorrow, the Energy & Commerce Committee will hear from the CDC and NIH to look into their response to the crisis. These oversight efforts will continue, and the House stands ready to act if it becomes clear legislation is needed to ensure the threat is countered aggressively and effectively.
“The administration must be able to assure Americans that we will stop the spread here at home. We will continue to press the administration for better information about what steps will be taken to protect the American people, including our troops, from this deadly virus. And we will work with the administration on appropriate policy options that will help stop the spread of this horrific disease both here in the United States and around the globe.”
Not everyone is susceptible. I'm reading THE RETURN OF THE BLACK DEATH BY S.Scot and C. Duncan......of all names!!! Sure doesn't help my level of anxiety.
Ground all flights, and drop all local government regulations and fees against new, small manufacturing shops, farms and property rights now. Centralized, global production must be stopped.
Considered?
That’s strong leadership.
With an enemy within, we are arguably at the most dangerous time in American history. And all we get to “oppose” the Luciferian president is this guy?
Considered? What does that mean? Take a stand wimpy.
Go have another martini and STFU, Captain Obvious. Maybe go hit the tanning bed and/or drink your favorite alcoholic beverage... the carrot and vodka screwdriver. Responsible Americans are witnessing your abdication of your position. Arriving late to the party gives you 0 points. Thanks for playing.
One of my coworkers voted for Zero twice and within the past week she has suddenly become very conservative. She would like to see Zero's ass ridden out of the White Hut on a rail.
Maybe Ohio should shut down all flights from Texas?
CONSIDERED!?
When did the blubbering dirtbag say this....today, or a month ago?
Tell your co-worker, “THANK YOU” for paying attention all of this time. /SARC
The 4 relatives have not contracted the virus because the CDC is right about one (and maybe only one) thing. People are not very contagious in the early stages of the disease.
At this point, the only people who have gotten Ebola in the US are those who are working closely with the nearly dead.
Also, since we actually kept Duncan alive past when he would have naturally died, with intubation and dialysis, we may have inadvertently made him the most contagious ebola victim ever.
The Republic is finished due to Universal Suffrage.
Even protecting Americans from bush meat eating bleeding from every orifice hemorrhagic fever Ebola infected Africans is beyond them.
Action on the part of the military would be the first step in restoring the Republic as the Founders established it.
The apparatchik in DC has NEVER solved a problem, continues to grow, and will never reform itself.
There is no other way.
Used to be the the CPUSA and their homosexual COMINTERN buddies would meet in secret.
Now they are in your face, large and in charge, from the WH to the local apparatchik at the county commission.
Any attempt to suppress domestic communism is now branded as hate speech or domestic terrorism.
The Republicans are useless.
It’s time to start developing a strategy to cripple the marxists, and it must be done totally outside of the electoral process through acts of civil disobedience and counter propaganda, with sympathetic State Governors and legislators assisting in the process.
All else fails, the military can fire the scumbags wholesale in all three branches, provisional military government for six months, then new elections (no incumbents need apply) only taxpayers and veterans enfranchised, all amendments repealed except the Bill of Rights, dueling legalized within DC limits.
Emergency legislation then shout about it when Reid shitcans it. Let the Dems in the senate eat it
CYA speech....
Meanwhile, the Obama adm doubles down with more “no travel ban” talking points:
White House: Ebola Travel Ban Still ‘Not on the Table’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215609/posts
Democrats push back on travel ban [even against this pitiful Republican “demand”]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3215624/posts
A growing number of lawmakers — mostly Republicans — are urging the Obama administration to bar travel to the United States for the roughly 13,000 foreign visa holders living in the West African countries where the disease is most rampant.
Do you believe FEDGOV would tell the truth if they did?.
Where are these people, and where is the press asking questions on their condition?
The press has chosen sides, and they are not on ours.
Oh, yes, it should be “considered”!
Boehner has made his token remark about the situation; now he can crawl back under his desk with an intern and a bottle of Scotch.
A worthless Soetoro enabler speaks mush.
I'm not defending Boehner but at least he did not agree with Obama on the issue.
its about frigging time
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