COVID-19

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 Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra on his lack of leadership during a public health crisis.

LETTER EXCERPT: “We write to request that you provide information and documents to address concerns about your leadership as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). It appears your leadership has largely been...

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...

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:

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.