{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffanys-legislation-requiring-senate-approval-world-health-organization", "Tiffany's Legislation Requiring Senate Approval of World Health Organization Treaty Clears House", "2024-09-11", "2024", "2024-09", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Thomas P. Tiffany", "T000165", "tiffany.house.gov", "tiffany", "https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Rep. Tom Tiffany\u2019s (WI-07) legislation \u2013 the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act \u2013 passed the U.S. House by a bipartisan vote of 219-199. This legislation would require any convention or agreement resulting from the work of the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body to be deemed a treaty, thus requiring the advice and consent of a supermajority of the Senate.\n\nAfter the WHO mismanaged the pandemic, which included ignoring early warnings from Taiwan about the outbreak of COVID-19 and reinforcing lies from the Communist Chinese Party that there was \u201cno clear evidence of human-to-human transmission,\u201d Americans remain skeptical of continuing infringements on personal liberties and freedoms. The legislation seeks to increase transparency in WHO agreements and provide a constitutional check on the Biden-Harris administration.\n\n\"It\u2019s deeply concerning that the Biden-Harris administration would even consider signing the World Health Organization\u2019s pandemic treaty. We cannot stand by as they attempt to surrender control of our public health system to unelected bureaucrats at the WHO and the UN. This legislation is essential to protecting our nation\u2019s sovereignty and ensuring that the safety of American citizens remains in the hands of the U.S., not a corrupt international organization,\u201d said Congressman Tiffany.\n\nWhile the WHO failed to finalize their pandemic global treaty earlier this year, scandal-plagued WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated, \u201cWe will try everything \u2014 believing that anything is possible \u2014 and make this happen because the world still needs a pandemic treaty.\u201d\n\n59 Members of Congress cosponsored Rep. Tiffany\u2019s No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has introduced identical legislation in the Senate, and every Republican senator is a cosponsor.\n\nH.R. 1425 is also supported by the Center for Family and Human Rights, Eagle Forum, Family Research Council, Family Watch International, Heritage Action, Sovereignty Coalition, and Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers.\n\nYou can read more about H.R. 1425 here. You can watch Rep. Tiffany's floor speech here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:43:57Z"]], "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://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffanys-legislation-requiring-senate-approval-world-health-organization"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5194250736385584, "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"}