{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/four-bills-cosponsored-congresswoman-boebert-end-covid-pandemic-pass-house", "Four Bills Cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert to End the COVID Pandemic Pass the House", "2023-02-03", "2023", "2023-02", "Republican", "House", "CO", "Lauren Boebert", "B000825", "boebert.house.gov", "boebert", "https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "This week, four bills cosponsored by Congresswoman Lauren Boebert passed the House of Representatives.\n\nCongresswoman Lauren Boebert stated, \u201cCOVID is over\u2014even Joe Biden admitted it. It is far past time to start undoing the harm that COVID hysteria caused our country, and it starts by reinstating our healthcare workers who should never have been fired for refusing to take the vaccine, requiring federal employees to actually show up to work, and cutting wasteful COVID spending.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nThis week, the House passed H. R. 382, the Pandemic is Over Act, which was cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert. The Pandemic is Over Act orders the Secretary of Health and Human Services to rescind the public health emergency declaration and relinquish all emergency powers that the executive branch has assumed.\n\nWith bipartisan support, the House also passed H. R. 497, the Freedom for Health Care Workers Act, which was cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert. This legislation ends the Biden administration\u2019s COVID vaccine mandate for healthcare workers and nullifies the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services\u2019 vaccine rule.\n\nAdditionally, the House passed H. J. Res. 7, which was cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert. This legislation declares the COVID national emergency is over. Biden has abused his self-declared emergency powers to justify his student loan scam and other unrelated liberal wish list items. This legislation will rescind the declaration of the COVID national emergency pursuant to the National Emergencies Act of 1974.\n\nFinally, the House passed H. R. 139, the SHOW UP Act, which was cosponsored by Congresswoman Boebert. As a member of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, Congresswoman Boebert was supportive of this legislation to ensure that federal employees show up to work to serve the American people. According to one disturbing report by the Federal Times, just one in three federal workers has returned to their office full-time. Equally disturbing, a leaked memo from January 2021 to the then-chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services showed that between 20 and 30 percent of the Department\u2019s employees did not log into work on any given day between March and December during 2020. Enough is enough, and it is time for federal employees to show up to work again.\n\nAlso this week, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability held its first hearing on COVID funding waste, fraud, and abuse.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T23:18:08Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/four-bills-cosponsored-congresswoman-boebert-end-covid-pandemic-pass-house"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8314489386975765, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}