Title: Expressing appreciation and recognition for President Trump and the Trump administration for the creation of Operation Warp Speed and the historic development of a COVID-19 vaccine.
Policy area: Health

Summary:
This resolution recognizes the efforts of the Trump Administration and Operation Warp Speed in the development of the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) vaccine.
Operation Warp Speed is an interagency partnership that coordinates federal efforts to accelerate the development, acquisition, and distribution of medical countermeasures for COVID-19.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 266 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
H. RES. 266

  Expressing appreciation and recognition for President Trump and the 
 Trump administration for the creation of Operation Warp Speed and the 
              historic development of a COVID-19 vaccine.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 23, 2021

  Mr. Babin (for himself, Mr. Posey, Mr. Weber of Texas, Mr. Hice of 
Georgia, Mr. Burgess, Mr. Jackson, Mr. Van Drew, Mrs. Harshbarger, Mr. 
Pence, Mr. Cawthorn, Mr. Dunn, and Mr. Norman) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                               RESOLUTION


 
  Expressing appreciation and recognition for President Trump and the 
 Trump administration for the creation of Operation Warp Speed and the 
              historic development of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Whereas COVID-19 has infected more than 28,000,000 Americans and taken the lives 
        of more than 500,000;
Whereas, on May 15, 2020, President Trump unveiled Operation Warp Speed, the 
        nationwide effort to develop, approve, and distribute an effective 
        COVID-19 vaccine;
Whereas despite widespread skepticism from public health professionals, 
        political opponents, and the media at its outset, Operation Warp Speed 
        proved to be a resounding success, making good on the administration's 
        promise in 2020 to ``. . . deliver by the end of this year a vaccine at 
        scale to treat the American people'';
Whereas Operation Warp Speed's rate of vaccine development was particularly 
        astonishing, having completely shattered expectations about the 
        development timeline by delivering two candidates described as ``gold 
        standard vaccines'' in only 9 months, rather than years;
Whereas the Trump administration supported the scientists at Moderna, Inc., 
        Pfizer, Inc., and Johnson & Johnson through the Biomedical Advanced 
        Research and Development Authority;
Whereas the Department of Defense, through the Defense Advanced Research 
        Projects Agency in conjunction with the Joint Program Executive Office 
        for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense, partnered 
        with the Department of Health and Human Services to optimally deliver 
        and administer a COVID-19 vaccine;
Whereas Tinglong Dai, an associate professor of Operations Management and 
        Business Analytics at Johns Hopkins University, said, ``Without 
        Operation Warp Speed, there would be no Moderna vaccine'';
Whereas the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, 
        praised the Trump administration for the unprecedented success of 
        Operation Warp Speed and the multiple effective vaccines developed 
        within 1 year of the virus outbreak;
Whereas, on December 11, 2020, the Food and Drug Administration speedily issued 
        the first emergency use authorization to allow Pfizer to begin 
        distributing its vaccine to the public;
Whereas, by October 16, 2020, the Trump administration and Operation Warp Speed 
        were partnering with CVS Health and Walgreens to provide vaccine 
        distribution to nursing homes and long-term care facilities nationwide, 
        with no out-of-pocket costs, protecting America's most vulnerable 
        populations;
Whereas, on December 8, 2020, President Trump signed an Executive order ensuring 
        the most vulnerable populations and Americans have priority access to 
        the vaccine;
Whereas, on December 14, 2020, only 7 months after the launch of Operation Warp 
        Speed, Sandra Lindsey, an intensive care unit nurse in New York City, 
        was the first person officially vaccinated;
Whereas by the time he left office, President Trump managed to produce and 
        deliver nearly 50 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, with millions more 
        on the way;
Whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control, by the time President 
        Trump left office, more than 21 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine had 
        been administered in the United States;
Whereas according to the Centers for Disease Control, on January 20, 2021, 
        President Trump's last day in office, 1,511,443 doses of COVID-19 
        vaccine were administered, setting the United States on pace to meet the 
        Biden administration's goal of 150,000,000 vaccines in his first 100 
        days;
Whereas President Trump and Operation Warp Speed placed special emphasis on 
        national security during a global health crisis, ensuring our vaccines 
        were developed in the United States and met the strict standards of 
        safety of United States vaccine development and deployment; and
Whereas the speedy development and deployment of COVID-19 vaccines has permitted 
        our Nation to combat the spread of the virus, protect our most 
        vulnerable populations, and begin the process of reopening our schools, 
        offices, and public spaces: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That the House of Representatives--
            (1) recognizes the massive and unprecedented 
        accomplishments of the Trump administration and Operation Warp 
        Speed in handling the development of a COVID-19 vaccine; and
            (2) expresses their sincere gratitude to President Trump 
        and his Cabinet for their vital contributions to global public 
        health and the management of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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