In an impassioned speech on the Senate floor Wednesday, Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) defended President Joe Biden’s sweeping vaccine mandate and criticized Republican opponents of the mandate.
Biden’s mandate, one of the largest vaccination mandates ever, is wide-ranging. It would require all federal employees to face the choice of getting vaccinated or losing their jobs. Biden also asked the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), which creates and enforces workplace safety standards, to put in place an emergency order to require that private firms with 100 or more employees mandate vaccinations or weekly testing for the CCP virus (Chinese Communist Party) virus.
