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LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) - Two Arizona congressmen are calling for a price gouging investigation after they say a Lexington based company raised its prices for masks by 600 percent.
Phoenix area Congressmen Greg Stanton and Ruben Gallego made the claim in a letter to U.S Attorney General William Barr, and said the vendor is commonly used by the Phoenix police and fire departments.
In interviews, the congressmen identified the vendor as Kentucky based company, Galls.
"Our transit and rail workers are essential to the health, safety, security and transport of people within and between our communities along with the transport of critical goods and freight across the country," the legislators wrote. "It is important that steps are taken to mitigate against the spread of the virus within the workforce, minimize exposure while workers are performing their duties, and ensure sufficient staffing."
U.S. Reps Greg Stanton, a Democrat from Arizona, and Brian Fitzpatrick, a Republican from Pennsylvania, were the lead signatories.
PHOENIX - Despite their continued need, Phoenix first responders agencies are being asked to spend more money than normal on N-95 masks by one vendor during the coronavirus outbreak.
Public safety vendor Galls has asked their customers to pay 600% more for them despite a recent executive order from President Donald Trump that prioritizes and allocates health and medical resources.
An urgent help sign sits near disinfectant wipes at a Vitalant blood drive in Sunnyslope on March 27, 2020. According to Vitalant, almost 200 blood drives have been cancelled since March 19, 2020, which they say has caused a national blood shortage.
On March 27, the U.S. House of Representatives followed the Senate and unanimously approved a $2 trillion economic relief package to combat the impact COVID-19 has had on businesses and families across the country.
The president signed the package soon after, though much has already changed in the days since - including guidance from D.C. that the present situation is likely to last until at least April 30.
The Show talked to congressman Greg Stanton about his view of how Arizona is handling its own response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
From Arlo Guthrie, who wrote a seven-minute song about taking out the garbage, to Shel Silverstein's Sarah Sylvia Cynthia Stout, who drowned in her own garbage, our society has long struggled with the excesses of its own existence. Today, Americans hold the title of biggest trash producers in the world, at 6.5 pounds per person, per day. This problem is perhaps no more evident than in Phoenix, the fastest-growing city in the country.
Health officials in Arizona are warning that the state may soon be unable to continue testing people for COVID-19 because of a lack of testing kits, and a Democratic congressman is demanding an explanation from the Trump administration.
Arizona still has so few coronavirus test kits that state officials are warning that screening could end, Rep. Greg Stanton said in a Thursday letter to Vice President Mike Pence.
Stanton, a freshman Democrat from Arizona, continued to take the Trump administration to task, saying it continued to "grossly mismanage" the crisis and had "crippled" doctors and nurses with a lack of needed supplies.
Four Arizona House Democrats pressed the Trump administration Friday to urgently provide $120 million in emergency aid to the Indian Health Service after delays in sending money to combat the new coronavirus that is sweeping across tribal communities.
Reps. Ruben Gallego, Raul Grijalva, Tom O'Halleran and Greg Stanton wrote a letter to Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services secretary, arguing that Native Americans have higher incidence of the kind of conditions that make the outbreak more severe.