Eighty House Republicans Vote With Democrats to Pass Bill Funding Federal Vaccine Database

Eighty House Republicans Vote With Democrats to Pass Bill Funding Federal Vaccine Database
A Department of Health and Human Services employee holds a COVID-19 vaccine record card in Washington on Nov. 13, 2020. EJ Hersom/DoD
Isaac Teo
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Eighty House Republicans voted with the Democrats to Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and made into law, would fund a federal vaccination database.

The bill, also known as H.R. 550, will grant the federal government the authority to appropriate $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund “immunization system data modernization and expansion.”