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WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) revealed new allegations that Dr. Fauci went to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Headquarters to “influence” its COVID-19 origins investigation. This revelation comes on the heels of recently acquired whistleblower testimony alleging that the CIA potentially skewed its COVID-19 origins review by offering six analysts significant financial incentives to conclude that the result of its ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) issued the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) will finally no longer receive U.S. funding and is formally debarred for 10 years: “The Wuhan Institute of Virology should not receive another cent of U.S. taxpayer funding. After years of conducting dangerous gain-of-function research at ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio), along with a bipartisan group of Select Subcommittee members, toured the Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response’s (ASPR) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) on Monday ahead of today’s classified briefing titled “Overseeing the Strategic National Stockpile — A Briefing with Assistant Secretary O’Connell.” The SNS is a network of strategically placed storehouses ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is continuing his investigation into a potential violation of federal record retention laws at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) by a close ally of Dr. Anthony Fauci. In June, the Select Subcommittee requested key emails and phone records related to Senior Scientific Advisor Dr. David Morens’s potential illegal destruction of COVID-19 related materials. In response to Chairman ...

WASHINGTON — The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic held a hearing titled “Oh Doctor, Where Art Thou? Pandemic Erosion of the Doctor-Patient Relationship” to examine the importance of maintaining physician autonomy and preserving the doctor-patient relationship during times of crisis—including future pandemics. Expert witnesses testified to the intense political and professional pressure on physicians during the pandemic to toe the line between personal autonomy and ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) opened today’s hearing titled “Oh Doctor, Where Art Thou? Pandemic Erosion of the Doctor-Patient Relationship” by concentrating on the federal government’s decision to sideline physicians in favor of broad mandates and coercive protocols that eroded trust in the medical community and wreaked havoc on the American healthcare system. Patients who receive individualized treatment from a ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) has joined forces with Committee on Oversight Accountability Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.), Committee on Energy and Commerce (E&C) Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), E&C Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Chairman Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), and E&C Subcommittee on Health Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) in an effort to force the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ...

WASHINGTON — Staff on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have heard testimony from a whistleblower alleging that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) offered six analysts significant monetary incentives to change their position on COVID-19’s origin. The whistleblower, who presents as a highly credible senior-level CIA officer, alleges that of the seven members assigned to the CIA team tasked with analyzing COVID-19 ...

WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) will hold a hearing titled “Oh Doctor, Where Art Thou? Pandemic Erosion of the Doctor-Patient Relationship” to examine the importance of the doctor-patient relationship during times of crisis, including future pandemics. Select Subcommittee members and expert witnesses will explore how government overreach during the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with one-size-fits-all protocols promoted by ...

If the Department (Bureau) fails to comply…we will be forced to evaluate the use of the compulsory process. WASHINGTON — Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic Chairman Brad Wenstrup (R-Ohio) is threatening to subpoena the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) after both government entities failed to produce information related to an illegal Chinese lab operating on U.S. soil as requested. Prestige ...