Five senators invoked a statute requiring HHS Sec. Becerra to provide responses to multiple requests on COVID-19 origins and vaccine safety dating back to 2020.
FIRST ON FOX: Republican senators are invoking a statute to force Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra to provide answers to several outstanding inquiries about COVID-19's origins and vaccine safety. 'We write regarding the Department of Health and Human Services’ complete disregard for transparency, Congressional oversight, and the public’s right to know,' wrote Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., in a letter on Tuesday also signed by Sens. James Lankford, R-Okla.
The lawmakers announced they were invoking a federal statute which requires executive agencies to 'submit any information requested of it relating to any matter within the jurisdiction of the committee' when prompted by five members of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs . The letter states that the senators on HSGAC have written to HHS and its sub-agencies on several occasions with questions regarding the COVID-19 virus and pandemic and its origins.
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