Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan, along with all 49 of his Senate Republican colleagues, as well as two Democratic senators, voted to overturn President Biden’s vaccine mandate for businesses using the Congressional Review Act (CRA), to eliminate an executive branch rule. Sullivan was one of the leaders in the CRA effort against the vaccine mandate.
Senate Joint Resolution 29 provides congressional disapproval of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor entitled “COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard,” which would have resulted in hundreds of thousands of Americans potentially losing their jobs. A companion piece of legislation (H.J. Res. 65) in the House of Representatives currently has 212 supporters, with every Republican in the chamber cosponsoring.
According to ABC News, this is largely a symbolic move as the House has no plans to take up this measure and the White House has stated that President Biden would veto it if it lands on his desk.
