Rand Paul: “It is estimated that between 5 million and 18 million people died from COVID-19 worldwide.”

We are voting on whether a witness who has received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered by this committee to answer questions and then defy that order without consequence.

For years, Americans were told a lab origin wasn’t just unlikely – it was dismissed outright by the very people funding and reviewing this research.

The chair directed Anthony Fauci to answer. He refused again. That is what we are voting on today - not his opinions, not his policies, not anything he said from a podium six years ago.

A court ultimately would have to determine: Does the Fifth Amendment apply to someone who already has a pardon?