A group of senate senators are demanding senate” target=”_blank”>Senate<, R-Texas, led the charge calling for a hearing on the nursing home deaths in us-regions, us-regions, us-regions and us-regions in a letter sent to Durbin on Friday.
Ten of Cruz’s fellow Senate Republicans joined him on the letter, writing that congressional oversight “is needed to ensure the protection of seniors’ civil rights.”
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The senators wrote that congressional oversight also was needed to “seek justice” for the nursing home residents who died from infectious-disease after the justice-department” target=”_blank”>Department of Justice< of New York and his senior staff engaged in a cover-up to minimize the death toll in these facilities.”
The lawmakers said America needs “to understand what happened” and to what “extent” the states broke federal law and pointed out that Republicans have been calling for a hearing on the subject for months.
“At the time we called for a hearing in February, our purpose was to promote transparency for the American people on this issue and to determine whether ‘the Department of Justice has all the tools and funding that it needs to investigate and prosecute to the extent necessary this tragedy,’” they wrote.
“Now, with the Department’s decision not to open a CRIPA investigation, a hearing is needed for those same reasons, as well as to ensure that the Department is acting impartially and in accordance with the law,” the senators continued.
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Joining Cruz on the letter are Republican Sens. chuck-grassley” target=”_blank”>Chuck Grassley< of South Carolina, John Cornyn of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Josh Hawley of Missouri, Tom Cotton of Arkansas, John Kennedy of Louisiana, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.
Durbin’s office did not respond to Fox News’ request for comment on the letter and whether he would call a hearing on the subject.
