Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is calling on the Department of the Treasury to release detailed information regarding the potential misuse of $350 billion in COVID-19 aid allocated to state, local, territorial, and tribunal governments.  The Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (SLFRF) program was created — through the American Rescue Plan — to address pandemic-era economic challenges faced by states ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is examining potential waste and abuse of pandemic-era education funds designed to address historic learning loss, reopen schools safely, and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Chairman Wenstrup is requesting data from the Department of Education detailing the use of Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds by state and local education agencies to evaluate any academic benefit ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is investigating U.S. taxpayer funded gain-of-function and Coronavirus research advanced by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The Select Subcommittee is requesting access to all denied Coronavirus-based research proposals submitted to the NIH and NIAID to evaluate any risky research that occurred prior to federal funding or ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) has opened an investigation into the development and implementation of overreaching, federal COVID-19 vaccination mandates and policies at the Department of Defense (DOD), U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Department of Labor (DOL), and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Chairman Wenstrup is requesting access to all documents, communications, and guidance utilized by these ...

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Because I Said So: Examining the Science and Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates” to evaluate the necessity and effectiveness of overreaching COVID-19 vaccine mandates and consider the erosion of public trust that stemmed from coercive vaccination policies. Select Subcommittee members asked expert witnesses about the effects on military readiness caused by separating military service members who ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing titled “Because I Said So: Examining the Science and Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates” by highlighting the Biden Administration’s abuse of executive power when it imposed mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations on millions of Americans without considering patient-physician relationships or medical freedom. Contrary to what was promised, COVID-19 vaccine mandates did not ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Because I Said So: Examining the Science and Impact of COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates” to evaluate the necessity and effectiveness of overreaching COVID-19 vaccine mandates and consider the erosion of public trust that stemmed from coercive vaccination policies. On August 24, 2021, the federal government issued its first COVID-19 vaccine mandate, which was ...

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Investigating the Proximal Origin of a Cover Up” to examine the potential conflicts of interest and suppression of scientific discourse by the National Institutes of Health surrounding the drafting, publication, and critical reception of the infamous “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (Proximal Origin) correspondence. Select Subcommittee members asked Dr. Kristian Andersen and Dr. Robert Garry ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued an interim staff report detailing the Select Subcommittee’s comprehensive investigation into the suppression of the lab-leak hypothesis by America’s leading public health officials through the drafting, publication, and critical reception of the infamous “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” (“Proximal Origin”) publication. The report titled “The Proximal Origin of a ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing titled “The Proximal Origin of a Cover-Up” by emphasizing the importance of investigating whether senior government officials had an insufficient basis and political motivations for tipping the scales towards their preferred zoonotic COVID-19 origin theory. Chairman Wenstrup lays out three potential motivations for abandoning scientific vigor in favor of political ...