Rob Woodall: “We have talked so much about bipartisanship. This is a chance to actually do something in a bipartisan way. Mr. Speaker…”

“We have talked so much about bipartisanship. This is a chance to actually do something in a bipartisan way. Mr. Speaker, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. McCaul), the former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee and the current ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, to discuss the amendment. Mr. McCAUL. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Woodall) for yielding time. We have known for years that the Chinese Communist Party has been conducting cyberattacks on the United States aimed not only at stealing vital data but also at destabilizing our economy. Recently, the FBI and DHS discovered that the CCP has taken their cyberattacks to a new low by attempting to hack into U.S. research facilities, in an effort to steal COVID-19 vaccine research. In other words, Mr. Speaker, at a time when scientists around the world are working together in an epic race against time to develop a lifesaving vaccine to rescue the world from the grips of the coronavirus, the CCP is trying to steal that research for their own selfish purposes. This news comes when the evidence has shown that the Chinese Communist Party is responsible for allowing this virus to spread into a pandemic. The House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans spent the last several months investigating the origins of this pandemic, in the hopes of learning vital lessons that would help us prevent the next one.…”