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WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on Education and the Workforce Chairwoman Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) are continuing their investigation into the misuse of pandemic-era education funds intended to address students’ historic learning losses. In multiple instances, the lawmakers have identified these funds instead being used on left-wing agendas. ...

WASHINGTON - Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup invited the Honorable John Ratcliffe, Former Director of National Intelligence, and Mr. David Feith, Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, to testify at a hearing titled “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19, Part 2: China and the Available Intelligence” on April 18, 2023 to examine China’s role in the origins of COVID-19 and the intelligence surrounding ...

WASHINGTON—The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing on "The Consequences of School Closures: Intended and Unintended” to examine the impact of COVID-19 school closures on student development and investigate the role federal health officials and teachers unions played in keeping schools closed longer than necessary. Subcommittee members discussed with expert witnesses how the prolonged closing of schools ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is calling on the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), American Federation of Teachers (AFT), and 14 other non-governmental groups to provide documents and information related to their role in the CDC’s COVID-19 school reopening guidance. Chairman Wenstrup is also requesting transcribed interviews from AFT President Randi Weingarten and other top leaders to further investigate ...

WASHINGTON—Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing on “The Consequences of School Closures: Intended and Unintended” by emphasizing the importance of preparing America’s education system to effectively address a future pandemic. Chairman Wenstrup outlined the negative effects of prolonged school closures on children and stressed that our country must be never again allow children to pay the price for policy mistakes. ...

WASHINGTON - Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “The Consequences of School Closures: Intended and Unintended” to examine the consequences of COVID-19 school closures on student development and the role federal health agencies and teachers unions played in school closure decisions. America’s children ...

WASHINGTON—Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio.), Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.), and Select Subcommittee Republicans are pressing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide documents and communications related to the FDA’s COVID-19 vaccine approval, as well as any coordination between the Biden Administration and the FDA related to administering guidance to the American people ...

WASHINGTON—Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19” by emphasizing how knowing the origin of the virus is essential to helping predict and prevent future pandemics, protecting health and national security, and preparing the United States for the future. He outlined how the Select Subcommittee will follow the facts, conduct a fair investigation, and seek to deliver the truth to ...

WASHINGTON—The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19” to gather facts about the origination of the virus that has claimed nearly seven million lives globally. At the hearing, several of the witnesses pointed to how the science, facts, and evidence point to a lab leak in Wuhan. Key Hearing ...

This is the panel’s first hearing in the 118th Congress; media must RSVP WASHINGTON—Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup will hold the panel’s first hearing of the 118th Congress on “Investigating the Origins of COVID-19,” to gather facts about the origination of the virus that has claimed nearly seven million lives globally. Mounting evidence continues to point to the virus originating from a lab leak, ...