"While there is no scheduled delay to the start of shipments of our vaccine should we receive approval in Europe, initial volumes will be lower than originally anticipated due to reduced yields at a manufacturing site within our European supply chain," AstraZeneca said in a statement. "We will be supplying tens of millions of doses in February and March to the European Union, as we continue to ramp up production volumes." … [Read more...] about Pfizer and AstraZeneca take heat as vaccine delays threaten Europe’s recovery
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200 House Republicans Press Congressional Leaders to Protect Hyde Amendment Blocking Tax Dollars for Abortions
We write to express our unified opposition to Congressional Democrats’ efforts to repeal the Hyde Amendment and other current-law, pro-life appropriations provisions. As part of their pro-abortion crusade, Democrats have taken direct aim at these long-standing bipartisan protections that generally prevent the federal government from using taxpayer dollars to support abortion procedures. Repealing these pro-life provisions would destroy nearly half a century of bipartisan consensus. Each year since 1976, Congress has included Hyde protections in annually enacted appropriations. No president in American history has ever vetoed an appropriations bill due to its inclusion of the Hyde Amendment. Moreover, President Obama maintained the Hyde Amendment in each of his budget proposals. As recent as June 2019, former Vice President Joe Biden supported the Hyde Amendment and acknowledged that it works harmoniously with federal funding for women’s healthcare. … [Read more...] about 200 House Republicans Press Congressional Leaders to Protect Hyde Amendment Blocking Tax Dollars for Abortions
On The Trail: Little GOP interest in post-election introspection
Some Republicans argued that any kind of public autopsy would be little more than a pointless public relations stunt. After all, the post-2012 report — dubbed the Growth and Opportunity Project — called for the party to reach out more to women, African Americans and Hispanic voters. Four years later, the man who oversaw that report, Reince PriebusReinhold (Reince) Richard PriebusAuthor: Meadows is history's worst White House chief of staff Ex-White House officials urge Trump to condemn violence at Capitol Making America dull again MORE, took office as chief of staff to a president who demeaned women, African Americans and Hispanic voters. … [Read more...] about On The Trail: Little GOP interest in post-election introspection
