Pelosi demands hearing on Ebola funding

[rangerrebew]

 
Pelosi demands hearing on Ebola funding
   
 

By Rebecca Shabad - 10/16/14 04:53 PM EDT

 
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is calling for appropriators to “return to Washington immediately” to approve additional funding for the Ebola response.

Pelosi said the House Appropriations Committee must quickly “convene hearings to discuss and debate the issue of funding levels” for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a statement Thursday.
 

“While it is important that the House Homeland Security and Energy & Commerce committees have held hearings, it is not right that the Appropriations committee has not met in accordance with its responsibilities to fund these critical public health agencies,” she said.
Just as lawmakers from both sides of the aisle collaborated on a response to HIV/AIDS, Pelosi said “we must come together on a bipartisan basis” to address funding to agencies handling the Ebola response.

Pelosi issued her call just a day after Democrats who oversee health funding pressed the panel’s top Republican for an appropriations hearing.

Rep. Rosa DeLauro (Conn.), the top Democrat on the House Appropriations health subcommittee, and Reps. Nita Lowey (N.Y.), Lucille Roybal-Allard (Calif.), Barbara Lee (Calif.) and Mike Honda (Calif.) questioned why the panel’s chairman, Rep. Jack Kingston (R-Ga.), has not responded to their request for an Ebola hearing.

House Appropriations Committee spokeswoman Jennifer Hing said only that, “The Committee currently has no hearings scheduled as the Congress is in recess.”

Congress has approved the administration’s request to shift $750 million in Pentagon funds toward the response, and lawmakers voted for a spending bill in September that included $88 million for Ebola.

The White House suggested Thursday the administration might ask Congress for even more money as health officials scramble to prevent the disease from spreading.

After lawmakers return to Washington next month, appropriators aim to pass an omnibus spending bill that would fund the government through the rest of fiscal 2015. Any additional funding for the Ebola response could be included in that legislation.

A number of Democrats have also blamed GOP budget cuts, saying that they have hampered the response to Ebola. But Republicans have countered that agency officials failed to prioritize spending to deal with such health crises.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/221014-pelosi-demands-hearing-on-ebola-funding

[DCPatriot]

Pick and number and get in line, Nancy.

[Relic]

It's a bitch that you aren't Speaker, isn't it Nan? Or should I say, the bitch isn't Speaker? 

[GourmetDan]

The GOP should schedule a hearing... and review every bit of nonsense funding given to the CDC, add it all up and transfer it to an Ebola response project.

No more studying why wives who calm down faster have better marriages...

[Cyber Liberty]

The GOP should schedule a hearing... and review every bit of nonsense funding given to the CDC, add it all up and transfer it to an Ebola response project.

No more studying why wives who calm down faster have better marriages...

 

Correct.  I say, give San Fran Nan exactly what she wants.  She's not going to like it when people find out how much NIH spent studying why lesbians are fat and why the chimps that fling their poop the farthest make better lovers....

[GourmetDan]

                       

[Relic]

                       

That one is so on the money. I've shared it a few times!

[GourmetDan]

Try the Liberal Logic site.

They do a daily thing like Pookie's Tunes...

[flowers]

What break are they on now?  anyone here know? Was it for the Jewish holiday?

[Cyber Liberty]

What break are they on now?  anyone here know? Was it for the Jewish holiday?

National Holiday:  Elections.

[Fishrrman]

GourmetDan wrote above:
[[ The GOP should schedule a hearing... and review every bit of nonsense funding given to the CDC, add it all up and transfer it to an Ebola response project. ]]

Good idea, Dan, and I'll expand on it a bit:

The House GOP should work up legislation to fund an Ebola response, CONTINGENT on a travel ban from Africa. No one from equatorial Africa admitted into the USA until safe screening measures can be established.

No ban, no funding. Period.

Of course, they won't do it.

[SPQR]

The GOP should schedule a hearing... and review every bit of nonsense funding given to the CDC, add it all up and transfer it to an Ebola response project.

No more studying why wives who calm down faster have better marriages...

Ebola should be separate than the other pork barrel projects

[mrclose]

The GOP should schedule a hearing... and review every bit of nonsense funding given to the CDC, add it all up and transfer it to an Ebola response project.

No more studying why wives who calm down faster have better marriages...

They could start here:

CDC gives $25 million in bonuses while complaining of budget cuts

Top officials at the Centers for Disease Control recieved $25 million in bonuses over the last 7 years, giving the lie to the notion that GOP budget cuts at the $6 billion agency are responsible for the Ebola outbreak.

Another $40 million in CDC funding has gone to study silly "health" issues like why are lesbians fat and origami condoms.

Washington Times:

U.S. taxpayers gave $6 billion in salaries and $25 million in bonuses to an elite corps of health care specialists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention since 2007, according to data compiled by American Transparency’s OpenTheBooks.com, an online portal aggregating 1.3 billion lines of federal, state and local spending. The agency’s head count increased by 23 percent during that time, adding manpower and contributing to higher payrolls despite relatively flat funding.

From 2010 to 2013, all federal wages were frozen because of budgetary constraints, but CDC officials found a way to pay themselves through bonuses, overtime, within-grade increases and promotion pay raises.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/cdc_gives_25_million_in_bonuses_while_complaining_of_budget_cuts.html

[SPQR]

They could start here:

CDC gives $25 million in bonuses while complaining of budget cuts

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2014/10/cdc_gives_25_million_in_bonuses_while_complaining_of_budget_cuts.html

That's a good point at a later time. The top priority is to contain this deadly disease and prevent it from spreading to the United States. If it spreads here like wildfire I do not want to hear any moaning from this board complaining from people why the money was not available

[Cyber Liberty]

That's a good point at a later time. The top priority is to contain this deadly disease and prevent it from spreading to the United States. If it spreads here like wildfire I do not want to hear any moaning from this board complaining from people why the money was not available

Money for bonuses is already spent, that train left the station, I get that.  But they have money appropriated for stupid projects not yet spent.  That money needs to be, and can be repurposed to the Ebola and Enterovirus D68right now.

[mrclose]

That's a good point at a later time. The top priority is to contain this deadly disease and prevent it from spreading to the United States. If it spreads here like wildfire I do not want to hear any moaning from this board complaining from people why the money was not available

As the liberal Washington Post claims...it is 4 out of 4 Pinnochios to blame this on Republicans.

 Republicans gave the CDC MORE than what Obama asked for the CDC.

 The CDC is then largely in charge of its own budget after it gets the money. Obama's hand picked people are in charge of that -- so blame Obama's choice in leadership for the CDC. The CDC chooses to waste too much money on liberal out reach programs and unnecessary things like a museum.

 CDC spending is up 300% since 2001. CDC spending is up under Obama. Total funding for the CDC and similar government organizations are UP - despite the sequester (the sequester that Obama thought up and then lied and said he didn't).

in January, the Republican-controlled House actually passed legislation that increased CDC spending for 2014 by $567 million — $300 million more than was requested by President Obama.

 Bottom line - Obama is in office: Democrats must work overtime deflecting, pointing fingers, and lying to cover up for all of the ineptitude of leadership under him.

[SPQR]

As the liberal Washington Post claims...it is 4 out of 4 Pinnochios to blame this on Republicans.

 Republicans gave the CDC MORE than what Obama asked for the CDC.

 The CDC is then largely in charge of its own budget after it gets the money. Obama's hand picked people are in charge of that -- so blame Obama's choice in leadership for the CDC. The CDC chooses to waste too much money on liberal out reach programs and unnecessary things like a museum.

 CDC spending is up 300% since 2001. CDC spending is up under Obama. Total funding for the CDC and similar government organizations are UP - despite the sequester (the sequester that Obama thought up and then lied and said he didn't).

in January, the Republican-controlled House actually passed legislation that increased CDC spending for 2014 by $567 million — $300 million more than was requested by President Obama.

 Bottom line - Obama is in office: Democrats must work overtime deflecting, pointing fingers, and lying to cover up for all of the ineptitude of leadership under him.

The CDC is a bunch of doctors who have become bureaucrats