COVID-19

Washington, D.C. — Energy and Commerce Committee Republican Leader Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) delivered opening remarks at Tuesday’s Health Subcommittee hearing on vaccine legislation.

Excerpts and highlights from her prepared remarks:

“Vaccines are a bright spot in the fight to enable Americans to live long, healthy lives.

“The return to normalcy after COVID-19 is just one chapter of that story.”

EXAMPLES OF VACCINE INNOVATION

“We know that vaccines save lives.

“Thanks to vaccines, four preventable disease are completely eliminated from the Americas...

Washington, D.C. — Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a second letter to National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins, today asking NIH to produce grant reports and related documents to inform a complete, scientific investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The letter states:

“The Chinese Communist government has not yet allowed Chinese scientists to cooperate with an investigation into COVID-19 origins, and has admitted to destroying samples and records pertinent to such an investigation. Thus, it...

Washington, D.C. — Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee sent a letter to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Rochelle P. Walensky as another step in their ongoing investigation into the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The letter to Dr. Walensky asks for a staff briefing to provide an update on CDC's investigative studies as to when COVID-19 may have first arrived in the United States, and if their studies indicate that it arrived earlier than the...