12/2/21
by Kyle Becker
The House of Representatives has passed a dangerous bill that would establish a federal vaccination database. Alarmingly, the radical Democrats accomplished this with the help of 80 Republicans, including Minority Leader and Speaker hopeful Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
“Eighty House Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and signed into law would fund a federal vaccination database,” Breitbart reported.
“According to the bill, also called H. R. 550, the government would provide $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund ‘immunization system data modernization and expansion,’ a system otherwise defined as ‘a confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any health care provider to persons within the geographic area covered by that database’,” the report noted.
“The database would allow the government to notify people about when their booster shot are due,” one political observer notes. “Although the system is described as confidential, confidential in this case means confidential from the public, until of course records are indiscriminately released like has happened with the IRS, Department of Defense, Veterans Administration, or any number of high-profile government leaks and hacks.”
The House Clerk provided the party breakdown: Democrats voted unanimously for the bill (214 Yeas) and 80 Republicans joined them. 130 Republicans voted against the bill.
Critics argue the bill will allow the federal government to track unvaccinated Americans, who could be segregated, targeted, and forced to comply with the vaccination mandates.
The bill has passed to the Senate and was referred to the Senate, read twice, and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
The roll call of the bill provides as good a primary list as Republican primary voters are going to find ahead of the 2022 midterms:
Bacon Nebraska
Baird Indiana
Banks Indiana
Barr Kentucky
Bilirakis Florida
Bucshon Indiana
Burgess Texas
Carl Alabama
Carter (GA) Georgia
Carter (TX) Texas
Cheney Wyoming
Cole Oklahoma
Comer Kentucky
Crenshaw Texas
Curtis Utah
Davis, Rodney Illinois
Diaz-Balart Florida
Dunn Florida
Fitzpatrick Pennsylvania
Fleischmann Tennessee
Fortenberry Nebraska
Gimenez Florida
Gonzales, Tony Texas
Gonzalez (OH) Ohio
Graves (MO) Missouri
Guthrie Kentucky
Herrera Beutler Washington
Hill Arkansas
Hinson Iowa
Hudson North Carolina
Huizenga Michigan
Jacobs (NY) New York
Johnson (OH) Ohio
Joyce (OH) Ohio
Joyce (PA) Pennsylvania
Katko New York
Keller Pennsylvania
Kim (CA) California
Kinzinger Illinois
Kustoff Tennessee
LaHood Illinois
Lesko Arizona
Letlow Louisiana
Long Missouri
Lucas Oklahoma
Luetkemeyer Missouri
McCarthy California
McCaul Texas
McClain Michigan
McHenry North Carolina
McKinley West Virginia
Meijer Michigan
Miller-Meeks Iowa
Moore (UT) Utah
Murphy (NC) North Carolina
Newhouse Washington
Owens Utah
Palazzo Mississippi
Palmer Alabama
Pence Indiana
Reed New York
Reschenthaler Pennsylvania
Rodgers (WA) Washington
Rogers (AL) Alabama
Rogers (KY) Kentucky
Salazar Florida
Schweikert Arizona
Smith (NJ) New Jersey
Smucker Pennsylvania
Stauber Minnesota
Stewart Utah
Thompson (PA) Pennsylvania
Turner Ohio
Upton Michigan
Wagner Missouri
Wenstrup Ohio
Westerman Arkansas
Wilson (SC) South Carolina
Womack Arkansas
Young Alaska
The bill’s language itself is alarming in its blunt intention to violate Americans’ privacy rights, as well as their bodily autonomy rights. Section 2824 clearly lays out the objectives.
Section 2824. of H.R. 550 regards the bill’s aim to “expand, enhance, and improve immunization information systems” that are administered by health departments or other agencies by “improving secure data collection, transmission, bidirectional exchange, maintenance, and analysis of immunization information.”
H.R. 550 also seeks to enhance “the capabilities of immunization information systems to evaluate, forecast, and operationalize clinical decision support tools in alignment with the recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices as approved by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” It will do this by “supporting the development and implementation of policies that facilitate complete population-level capture, consolidation, and access to accurate immunization information” as well as “supporting activities to improve the scheduling and administration of vaccinations.”
“In a statement, the bill’s main sponsor, Democrat Rep. Ann Kuster (NH), said the system would be used to ‘remind patients when they are due for a recommended vaccine’ and identify areas with low vaccination rates to ‘ensure equitable distribution of vaccines,” Breitbart reported. “Notably, the bill has four Republican co-sponsors: Reps. Larry Bucshon (R-IN), James Baird (R-IN), David McKinley (R-WV), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA).”
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL), one of the 130 Republicans to vote “no,” told Breitbart News on Wednesday that the legislation would enable the federal government to “track” unvaccinated Americans who “will be targeted and forced to comply with Biden’s crazy ‘global vaccination’ vision.”
“These systems are designed to allow for the sharing of crucial information and maintenance of records. Do we really trust the government to protect our medical records?” Miller said. “The bill’s author even bragged in her press release that these systems will help the government remind patients when they are due for a recommended vaccine and identify areas with low vaccination rates to ensure equitable distribution of vaccines. This was clearly a legislative tool to enforce vaccine mandates and force their Orwellian rules onto those who do not comply.”
Disturbingly, the federal vaccination database could also be abused to target Americans who value human rights and individual freedoms. As the Democratic Party has repeatedly demonstrated, there is no part of the federal government the extremist party isn’t willing to weaponize against their political enemies.
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Source:
https://beckernews.com/betrayal-80-republicans-vote-with-radical-dems-to-pass-dangerous-federal-vaccination-database-bill-43341/
