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WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — In a U.S. Senate committee hearing on July 28, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz introduced two amendments, one of which would stop the federal government from implementing COVID-19 “vaccine passports,” and the other would block the government from tracking Americans’ vaccine status in a federal database.
Sen. Cruz, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, participated in a markup of three bills during the July 28 hearing, including one bill called the “International Pandemic Preparedness and COVID-19 Response Act,” which would create a “global health initiative fund.”
Cruz proposed two amendments to the “preparedness” bill to prevent the federal government from imposing a vaccine passport for COVID-19 injections, forcing Americans to show proof of having received the experimental jab in order to participate in ordinary activities.
“My view is there should be no mandates, no mask mandates, no vaccine mandates, and no vaccine passports, and what my amendment focuses on is just the last piece of it — vaccine passports,” Cruz told members of the senate committee. “I will say, finally,
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