This is boiling down to he-said-she-said. A local R rep here published this in her newsletter after voting yea:
"I am adamantly opposed to any database that allows the federal government to track the vaccination status of Americans, I would not support any legislation that creates such a database, and I have publicly and legislatively opposed all vaccine mandates. H.R. 550, which was voted on earlier this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, does not create a federal database, but instead beefs up security for already existing state-run Immunization Information Systems so that the information in them is safe and secure. The language in H.R. 550 specifically says that the data is confidential and population based. This bill was supported and cosponsored by conservative Republican physician and Congressman, Dr. Larry Bucshon, and makes important modernizations to existing state-run systems so that the Biden Administration cannot use these systems for other purposes. To be clear, I do not support any federal government vaccination database and I am strongly opposed to vaccine mandates."
So the R rep who responded to Henry confirms that there is already a database and that the bill will fund expansion to enroll remaining Americans who are not yet in said database(s), whether state or federally administered?
Anyone here believe that 'state administered databases' are firewalled against fedgov use/abuse and that enrolled persons have given affirmative consent for misuse of their most private information?
Didn't think so...but will dig out the actual language and try to cross ref the usual arcane legal mumbo jumbo linking to existing law, regulation and whatever.
This is boiling down to he-said-she-said. A local R rep here published this in her newsletter after voting yea:
ReplyDelete"I am adamantly opposed to any database that allows the federal government to track the vaccination status of Americans, I would not support any legislation that creates such a database, and I have publicly and legislatively opposed all vaccine mandates. H.R. 550, which was voted on earlier this week in the U.S. House of Representatives, does not create a federal database, but instead beefs up security for already existing state-run Immunization Information Systems so that the information in them is safe and secure. The language in H.R. 550 specifically says that the data is confidential and population based. This bill was supported and cosponsored by conservative Republican physician and Congressman, Dr. Larry Bucshon, and makes important modernizations to existing state-run systems so that the Biden Administration cannot use these systems for other purposes. To be clear, I do not support any federal government vaccination database and I am strongly opposed to vaccine mandates."
Somebody is lying here, so who is it?
So the R rep who responded to Henry confirms that there is already a database and that the bill will fund expansion to enroll remaining Americans who are not yet in said database(s), whether state or federally administered?
ReplyDeleteAnyone here believe that 'state administered databases' are firewalled against fedgov use/abuse and that enrolled persons have given affirmative consent for misuse of their most private information?
Didn't think so...but will dig out the actual language and try to cross ref the usual arcane legal mumbo jumbo linking to existing law, regulation and whatever.