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WASHINGTON — House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) joined “The Ingraham Angle” with Laura Ingraham on Fox News to discuss Dr. Fauci’s announced retirement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and why that will not help him skirt congressional oversight. “We have a lot of questions for Dr. Fauci,” said Ranking Member Comer. “We’ve already told Dr. Fauci to preserve all of his documents and all of his ...

WASHINGTON — Today, House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) released the following statement after Dr. Fauci announced his intent to retire from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in December 2022:  “Retirement can’t shield Dr. Fauci from congressional oversight. Emails obtained by Oversight Committee Republicans reveal what Dr. Fauci said publicly about COVID origins was very different than what was said privately. Dr. Fauci was ...

WASHINGTON —Today, House Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.) issued the following statement after Dr. Anthony Fauci's announcement that he will be retiring at the end of the year: "For over two years, Congressional Democrats have refused to hold a single hearing on the origins of COVID, or our government's possible financial involvement in gain-of-function research. That will change when House Republicans ...

EcoHealth conducted gain of function research on bat coronaviruses in Wuhan WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.) today slammed the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) for continuing to award EcoHealth Alliance taxpayer-funded grants and contracts despite being found to have been out of compliance with the terms of their grant. EcoHealth Alliance, an NIH grantee, awarded taxpayer funds to the Wuhan Institute of ...

Call on Mayor Bowser to immediately halt enforcement of COVID vaccine mandate for students WASHINGTON—House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), and House Committee on the Judiciary Ranking Member Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) today wrote to District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser calling on her to immediately stop the enforcement of the ...