Donna Shalala: “None of us believe that we should have anything other than elected Representatives.”

But, look, we've got lots of vaccine. It ought not to be sitting in refrigerators. We've got to get it out and we've got to get it out quickly.

What we are interested in is protecting the balance of power, covering the losses with the least disruption as quickly as possible.

There's no plan here. There's no plan for the last mile. They planned for the distribution, getting the vaccines out to the states, but they did not plan for how they were going to get enough vaccines into the arms of people in this…

They threaten the continuity of Congress as a functioning representative of the American people, and our commission respectfully suggests that they need to be addressed.