Democrats and Fauci are no-shows as House Republicans investigate COVID-19 origins

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House Republicans held a hearing on Tuesday to investigate the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic but were hampered by Democrats, who refused to participate. Because Republicans are in the minority and cannot schedule official hearings, they proceeded alone and were unable to compel key witnesses to testify, like Dr. Anthony Fauci.

 

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The hearing was organized by House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), who serves as the ranking member on the Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. Republicans chose to hold the informal hearing — which took place in the Capitol Visitors Center because they could not reserve an official hearing room — amid growing frustrations with the Democratic majority's neglect to schedule a hearing with expert testimony on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic.

"What was the origin of COVID-19? We have asked that question for more than a year and requested that the House majority hold hearings to investigate the origins of COVID. Perplexingly, Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi [(D-Calif.)] has refused to allow a single hearing — calling it a 'diversion,'" Scalise said in his opening remarks. "As the American people will hear today from our expert witnesses, this is far from a diversion."

"The evidence continues to mount that this was a man-made disaster that started in the Wuhan lab," Scalise continued. "If that is the case, then it might be the crime of the century – exponentially worse than Chernobyl."

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