House Republicans blocked Democrats’ attempt to meet President Donald Trump’s demand to pay most Americans $2,000 to help weather the coronavirus pandemic.
Republicans objected to the bill House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer sought to pass by unanimous consent Thursday to replace the $600 payments in the latest pandemic relief legislation with the $2,000 payments.
Wendy Herndon is second vice president of Product Launch and Adoption at Aflac. With more than 20 years of experience in this field, she is responsible for providing the overall strategy for all product-related launch, promotional and educational activities.
As benefits analytics consultant, Mr. Austin is responsible for developing leading-edge analytic methodologies embedded within the Artemis reporting system. Mr. Austin also performs analyses and supports clients in the implementation of their integrated health, attendance and disability management programs.
Mr. Austin has over thirty years experience in the healthcare industry with the majority of the time focusing on Health and Productivity Management. Mr. Austin has previously worked at other data warehouse organizations (Nuna, OptumHealth and IBM Watson Health) providing similar client insights and product support. He also has experience working in benefits administration for two large employers in California: Pacific Gas & Electric (Senior Manager – Workforce Health) and Pacific Bell (Director – Health and Productivity).
Mr. Austin holds an MBA and Sloan Certificate in Hospital and Health Care Administration both from Cornell University and a BA in Psychology from the University of California at Berkeley.
Kevin J. Armstrong is the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of Docupace.
“House and Senate Democrats have repeatedly fought for bigger checks for the American people, which House and Senate Republicans have repeatedly rejected — first, during our negotiations when they said that they would not go above $600 and now, with this act of callousness on the Floor,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in a statement Thursday.
Democrats will try again with a roll call vote on a new bill Dec. 28, when the House also plans a vote to override Trump’s veto on the National Defense Authorization Act. Since current government spending runs out that day — and funds for the rest of the fiscal year are included in the virus relief bill Trump criticized and hasn’t signed -- the House could also pass another stopgap measure to avert a partial government shutdown.
Republicans on Thursday tried to seek unanimous consent on a measure to examine taxpayer money spent on foreign aid, but Democrats blocked that move. In his complaint Tuesday about Congress’s combined virus aid and government spending bill, Trump criticized federal resources spent on international programs, even though that spending was allocated as part of the bipartisan appropriations process.