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WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing titled “Assessing America’s Vaccine Safety Systems, Part 1” with a reminder that balanced conversations about the integrity and credibility of vaccinations are important for restoring trust in America’s public health system following the COVID-19 pandemic. Chairman Wenstrup detailed serious shortcomings in vaccine safety reporting and vaccine injury compensation ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Assessing America’s Vaccine Safety Systems, Part One” to examine the effectiveness of vaccine safety reporting and injury compensation systems following the rollout of the controversial COVID-19 vaccine. The federal government maintains a surveillance system that monitors injuries resulting from widely available vaccinations. During the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns ...

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Overseeing the Department of Health and Human Services’ Compliance with Congress” to demand accountability from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) following months of deliberate stonewalling and relentless attempts to evade the Select Subcommittee’s investigations. Today’s hearing proved that whether in a public forum, behind closed doors, or in written communications, HHS ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing titled “Overseeing the Department of Health and Human Services’ Compliance with Congress” by describing the relentless stonewalling and obstruction of the Select Subcommittee’s investigations by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). HHS has repeatedly produced documents that are illegible, unresponsive, and unnecessarily redacted while simultaneously ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Overseeing the Department of Health and Human Services’ Compliance with Congress” to demand accountability from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after months of deliberate stonewalling and relentless attempts to evade the Select Subcommittee’s investigations. HHS has repeatedly frustrated legitimate Congressional oversight efforts by ...

WASHINGTON — Today, Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) led a transcribed interview of Dr. David Morens — a top advisor to Dr. Anthony Fauci at the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). The six-hour testimony centered on allegations that Dr. Morens deleted COVID-19 origins material and used his personal email to avoid the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) during the pandemic. In emails revealed by the Select ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) led a two-day, 14-hour transcribed interview of Dr. Anthony Fauci last week. The Select Subcommittee prepared more than 200 pages of questions and approximately 100 exhibits related to Dr. Fauci’s influential role during the COVID-19 pandemic. His two-day testimony revealed deep, systemic failures in America’s public health system.  The most important discoveries from Dr. ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) released key takeaways after the Select Subcommittee’s seven-hour transcribed interview with Dr. Francis Collins, the former Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). During COVID-19, Dr. Collins led the NIH’s pandemic response and notably served as Dr. Anthony Fauci’s “boss.” Key takeaways from Dr. Francis Collins’s transcribed ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after the second day of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s transcribed interview: “After two days of testimony and 14 hours of questioning, many things became evident. During his interview today, Dr. Fauci claimed that the policies and mandates he promoted may unfortunately increase vaccine hesitancy for years to come. He testified that the lab leak hypothesis — ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after day one of Dr. Anthony Fauci’s two-day, 14-hour transcribed interview: “Dr. Fauci’s testimony today uncovered drastic and systemic failures in America’s public health systems. While leading the nation’s COVID-19 response and influencing public narratives, he simultaneously had no idea what was happening under his own jurisdiction at NIAID. ...