Biden would veto proposed U.S. Senate resolution to end COVID national
emergency -White House
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 [November 16, 2022]
(Reuters) -President Joe Biden would
veto a proposed U.S. Senate resolution that would terminate a national
emergency declared in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the
White House said on Tuesday.
Republican U.S. Senator Roger Marshall in September called for a vote to
end the emergency declaration after Biden told CBS News in an interview
that the pandemic was "over."
The White House later walked back Biden's comments, saying there had
been no change in the administration's COVID-19 policy.
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U.S. President Joe Biden receives an
updated coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine while launching a new
plan for Americans to receive booster shots and vaccinations,
onstage in an auditorium on the White House campus in Washington,
U.S. October 25, 2022. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
 Marshall's proposed resolution was
put on the Senate calendar in October but has not yet been put to a
vote in the Democrat-controlled chamber.
(Reporting by Eric Beech and Dan Whitcomb; editing by Costas Pitas
and Richard Chang)
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