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Leader Rodgers Demands Floor Vote for Oversight on Biden’s Baby Formula Crisis

Sep 21, 2022
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Energy and Commerce Democrats Agree He has Failed Parents and Babies 

BREAKING NEWS: For parents, President Biden and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must answer for empty baby and infant formula shelves. 

Republicans and Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee JUST favorably reported Congressman Tim Walberg’s (R-MI) H. Res. 1287, which requests certain documents from the administration related to its delayed and disastrous response to this supply crisis.  

Now, House Energy and Commerce Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) is demanding Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) bring this resolution to the floor. 

“Parents—who are already struggling to afford groceries, gas, and electricity bills—still can’t find the baby formula they need,” said Rodgers. “President Joe Biden owes them answers. For months, my Republican colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee have been calling for complete transparency from his administration on why it repeatedly failed to act with urgency to address supply shortages and empty shelves. Today, Democrats on the Committee agreed. Now, we are demanding Speaker Pelosi bring this resolution to the floor and require the administration to hand over documents for robust and proper oversight of this crisis. We should do everything we can to make sure the administration is held accountable so these failures never happen again.” 

NOTE: H. Res. 1287 was reported favorably by the Energy and Commerce Committee by a bipartisan vote of (54-0). This comes after Republicans repeatedly called for the Biden administration to be completely transparent to moms and dads struggling to find baby formula. In July, Leader Rodgers, Health Subcommittee Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Oversight Subcommittee Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) requested the FDA produce memos and reports sent to the White House about this crisis. To date, the FDA has not shared a complete response to these requests with the Committee despite promises to do so.

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Democrats Shut Down E&C GOP Calls for Robust Oversight of Biden Inflation, Energy, and Border Crises

Today, Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee led on many “Resolutions of Inquiry” for robust and proper oversight of the Biden administration’s handling of crises such as surging inflation, rising energy costs, empty store shelves, chaos at the border, and record-high fentanyl poisonings and overdose deaths. Democrats were forced to make a choice between demanding accountability on behalf of the American people or continuing to stonewall legitimate congressional oversight to protect President Biden’s radical agenda. 

As Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said today, “The hardworking people of this country—like the parents who can’t find baby formula, the pipeline worker out of a job, the mom who can’t afford her groceries or electricity bills, and the parents who lost a child to a fentanyl poisoning—deserve accountability and answers.” 

Here’s a summary of how Democrats voted on more than a dozen Republican-led oversight measures to hold the Biden administration accountable: 

Surging Inflation and Energy Costs 

  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to the administration’s COVID-19 response, including how it mismanaged and wasted trillions of dollars in spending in its first reconciliation package to fund a political agenda and fuel inflation.  
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation on how the administration is exploiting the energy crisis it created to advance a rush-to-green climate agenda. 
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to the administration’s attempts to declare a National Climate Emergency to impose more taxes, fees, and regulations on hardworking Americans. 
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation on the Biden administration’s abuse of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) for political purposes to distract from record high gas prices. 
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to the administration’s actions to undermine our power grid and increase the risk of life-threatening electricity blackouts.  
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation on how the tens of billions of dollars in broadband funding from the infrastructure bill is being spent and to ensure that it is used to close the digital divide & promote economic growth, not to increase inflation.  
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to how the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chair is departing from long-standing bipartisan consensus and instead pushing harmful policies that will allow progressives to radically change the American economy and make inflation worse. 

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Biden’s Border Crisis 

  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to the administration’s failure to combat the unprecedented crisis of fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances. 
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to the administration’s decision to revoke Title 42 and continue their open-border agenda. 

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Baby Formula Crisis

  • APPROVED: In a unanimous 54-0 vote, the Energy and Commerce Committee favorably reported a measure to require the administration to provide certain documents related to its delayed and disastrous response to the baby formula supply crisis. Republicans are now calling on Speaker Pelosi to immediately schedule a floor vote.  

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Biden’s Socialist Health Care Agenda 

  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to the administration’s socialist drug pricing control scheme and how it will lead to fewer cures, treatments, and innovations. 
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to the lack of leadership by Secretary Health and Human Services (HHS) Xavier Becerra during the pandemic.

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Censoring Free Speech 

  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation regarding attempts by Democrats and liberal organizations to pressure the Federal Communications Commission and private companies to censor conservative media and ban free speech.   
  • BLOCKED: Requests for certain documentation related to the administration’s coordination with social media companies to censor Americans online under the guise of combatting “misinformation.”

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