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E&C Republicans Examining COVID-19 Related Research at CDC, FDA and NIH

01.20.2022

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent letters to three different Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) agencies requesting information about their research activities related to COVID-19 and other coronaviruses, including the sources of funding for such research.

The letters were sent to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle Walensky, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Acting Commissioner Janet Woodcock, and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Acting...

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E&C Republican Leaders Ask CDC Director for Briefing on Crises Under Her Tenure

01.14.2022

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter today to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky requesting a briefing on the multiple crises that have occurred under her leadership at the agency.

The Leaders point to several issues that have eroded public trust in Director Walensky and the CDC:

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Rodgers, McCaul, Lucas Question Admin’s Lack of Response to COVID-19 Inquiries

01.13.2022

Washington, D.C. – House Committee on Energy and Commerce Lead Republican Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), House Foreign Affairs Committee Lead Republican Michael McCaul (R-TX), and House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology Lead Republican Frank Lucas (R-OK) sent a letter to President Biden on the administration’s lack of response to requests from Congress on COVID-19.

“We are writing to express our concern with a lack of responsiveness to requests to Ranking Members from our Committees on the topic of the origins of COVID-19. Disappointingly, many...

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Leader Rodgers on Fox Business: “There’s been zero transparency by the Biden administration” on COVID-19 spending.

01.10.2022

House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (R-MO) joined Larry...

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Rodgers, Smith, Brady Expose Biden Administration’s Massive Diversion of Funding from COVID-Testing, Cite Billions in Waste & Remaining Funds

01.05.2022

Today, House Energy & Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), House Budget Committee Republican Leader Jason Smith (MO-08), and House Ways & Means Committee Republican Leader Kevin Brady (TX-08) in a letter to President Biden, slammed the Administration for its failure to account for how, when, and where funding supposedly meant to address COVID-19 has been distributed and spent to date. The letter comes just days after America reached its highest average daily COVID-19 case number, nearly two years since the emergence of the virus.

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E&C Republicans Launch Webpage as a Resource for Whistleblowers to Report Tips Related to the COVID-19 Origins Investigation

01.05.2022

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) announced the launch of a webpage for whistleblowers as a resource to contact them with information pertaining to their investigation of the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“We need to know how this pandemic started in order to stop it from ever happening again. We owe it to every American who lost a loved one to COVID-19, every frontline worker who worked...

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E&C Republican Leaders Request National Academy of Medicine Investigate EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak for Misconduct

11.30.2021

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to National Academy of Medicine (NAM) Home Secretary Elena Fuentes-Afflick urging NAM to immediately suspend EcoHealth Alliance President Peter Daszak and to conduct a comprehensive investigation into his conduct related to COVID-19 origins to determine whether he should be expelled.

In the letter, the Leaders point to a number of Daszak’s actions that may violate the NAM Code of Conduct and warrant urgent action:

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E&C Republican Leaders Reveal NIH Mismanaged Concerns Surrounding EcoHealth Alliance’s Risky Research in China

11.03.2021

Washington, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), Subcommittee on Health Republican Leader Brett Guthrie (R-KY), and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Republican Leader Morgan Griffith (R-VA) sent a letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, the fifth comprehensive inquiry as a part of the investigation into the origins of COVID-19.

During the U.S. gain-of-function (GOF) pause, undisclosed correspondence between NIH and EcoHealth Alliance now reveal that NIH was concerned it was funding such risky research:

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