Rand Paul

This is about the business of science with China, this will disturb our relations with China if anybody questions this.

FBI concluded it came from the lab.

This is not a partisan thing.

There's a lot of evidence that people within the intel agencies actually do believe that there is evidence that it came from the lab.

FBI concluded it came from the lab.

The ones that have been vocal about this and talked a lot about have been the DOE, which has more scientists than any other agency in Washington, probably other than NIH. They have concluded that it did come from the lab.

This is not scientific debate that they're taking us off the Internet.

They believed it did not come from nature.

That does not sound to me like open-mindedness, and I wonder what you would tell a younger researcher about putting categorical statements into a scientific paper.

This is incredibly important and needs congressional oversight on the select agents, but also on the Gain-of-Function.

FBI concluded it came from the lab.

The ones that have been vocal about this and talked a lot about have been the DOE, which has more scientists than any other agency in Washington, probably other than NIH. They have concluded that it did come from the lab.

But arguing against that is they tested 90,000-some-odd animals, and there is no animal host that's been found.

this is about the business of science with China, this will disturb our relations with China if anybody questions this.

That was actually coming from Nature at the time. We want you to doctor it up and even be more strong, because we are making a political point here.

There's a lot of evidence that people within the intel agencies actually do believe that there is evidence that it came from the lab.

This is not a partisan thing.

This virus showed up immediately, very transmissible in humans as if it had been preadapted in a lab.

I know of no other example in modern scientific history or publications where a publication has come forward pronouncing with such authority that the lab leak is implausible.

I ask unanimous consent (UC) to submit statements for the record from U.S. Right To Know, Open the Books America, First Legal, Frontiers of Freedom, and Dr. Alina Chan.

We should never ever listen to people like that.

In some ways, the United States of America is a monarchy in disguise.

In some ways, the United States of America is a monarchy in disguise.

There needs to be legislature against the Executive, like the good old days, when we could combine Republicans and Democrats to always say, 'We are going to do as Madison said, put our ambition against their ambition.'

I think when we watch this unfold you tend to see Republicans louder when Biden abuses the power and Democrats louder when Trump abuses the power.