It seems in todays arguments before the justices that the sweeping mandate issued by the Biden admin thru Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) for ALL business’s will be rejected….
But the Supreme’s may give the President a half of a loaf in supporting his ability to order vaccines or testing for those healthcare workers whose salaries are supported by Medicare or Medicaid Federal funding….
Biden’s people are well aware that private business mandates come from the states or Congress…
Not from President’s….
The court’s decision could come quickly — it is considering emergency petitions to either allow the regulations to go into effect or stop them.
The court spent three and half hours in a highly unusual hearing on the emergency requests. The workplace rule is proposed by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and would cover about 80 million workers. The other would cover about 17 million health-care workers….
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A majority of justices seemed inclined to agree with private businesses and Republican-led states that OSHA’s proposed action seemed more in line with what states or Congress might dictate, rather than a federal agency.
Such a workplace requirement “sounds like the sort of thing that states will be responding to or should be, and that Congress should be responding to or should be, rather than agency by agency, the federal government, the executive branch acting alone,” said Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr….
Meanwhile, we were told that Biden and Manchin are “dealin’”
Yet the Washington Post says that things are at such an impasse that Manchin no longer supports his own initiative (a 2.8 billion counteroffer) that he floated right before Christmas.
Correction 1.8 billion.
It has been reported that Manchin HAS spoken to
White House aides AND just about EVERY Democrat that can get ahold of him ….,,,,
The big push is for the Voting Rights Bill no filibuster……
Word in the media is the WV Senator was good for the $1.85 B package……
Jack?
There IS gonna be a Biden social spending package …….
It just a matter of what ends up in it…..
Again?
Manchin votes SOLIDLY Democratic more than 80% of the time….
Sorry didn’t see ur correction….
And we seem to be back to negotiations in the media which do NOT WORK……
Biden will get a bill when things get done away from pressuring Manchin and they bend to the Senator to a some degree
There is NO OTHER way this gets to be…..
Bonus Quote of the Day
January 9, 2022 at 7:09 pm EST
“COVID mandates are wrong. Schools have no right to force you to get your 5-year old vaccinated.”
— Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), on Twitter, overlooking the current vaccine mandates for schools include: Chickenpox, Diphtheria, Hepatitis A & B, Flu, Measles, Mumps, Pertussis, Polio, Pneumococcal, Rotavirus, Rubella, and Tetanus.
Most at-home COVID tests in Massachusetts cannot be formally reported to public health authorities, sparking questions about whether virus cases are being undercounted in the Commonwealth and beyond.
A spokesperson for the Massachusetts Department of Public Health told the Globe in an e-mail that there is no avenue for residents to alert the state of positive results from antigen tests.
The majority of at-home tests “are not reportable,” the spokesperson wrote….
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