The Contain Ebola and Stop the Epidemic (CEASE) Act 2014 was introduced by U.S. Representative, Dennis A. Ross (R-FL), Senior Deputy Majority Whip. The bill was cosponsored by Representatives Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), John Duncan (R-TN), and Bill Posey (R-Fl). It is aimed to prohibit certain flights from landing in the United States and to prohibit the issuance of visa’s to protect us from Ebola.
Ross had the following to say about the bill:
Now that the United States is free of the Ebola virus disease, we must begin implementing a process that will keep our country safe from a potential future outbreak. Craig Spencer, a doctor who helped treat Ebola patients in West Africa, returned home to New York to find he had become sick with the virus. Spencer was released from the hospital this week, but President Obama’s Ebola Czar, Ron Klain, told MSNBC, ‘we’re going to see occasional additional cases of Ebola in our country. This is not the last one.’ Klain’s statement does not provide my constituents and I comfort.
If the bill is passed it is hoped to defer an Ebola epidemic within our borders by implementing commonsense safeguards to protect American’s from the virus.
Ross also said:
Until the CDC can ascertain that Ebola has been contained and eradicated overseas, we must be vigilant in keeping Americans safe by being proactive instead of reactive.
Highlights of the Act include the fact the Administrator of the Federal Administration can prohibit aircraft from landing in the United States that:
1. Are being used to provide scheduled passenger transportation for compensation; and
2. Left with passengers whose air travel originated, or included a stop, in a foreign country where there was an Ebola virus epidemic
There is no question we are faced with the danger of an Ebola breakout in the United States. For the sake of all the Americans, I hope this bill gets passed.
