Rand Paul

It did happen, and the reason this is important is many people want to collect all these viruses from around the world.

We cannot control everything China does, but we certainly should not be funding it.

The record will show that you did.

Will you provide for us the name of the persons at USAID who attended this briefing in 2018 and let us interview them to find out what happened?

Why was the public never made aware that they were trying to do dangerous research to create a virus very similar to what COVID-19 became?

The record will show that you did.

Well, I will help you.

They take the virus, and then they take an S protein from another virus, and they create a virus that does not exist in nature.

We cannot control everything China does, but we certainly should not be funding it.

Scientific review panels may deem similar studies building chimeric viruses based on circulating strains too risky to pursue.

I move to refer the message to accompany H.R. 2882 to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the motion. The legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Kentucky [Mr. Paul]…

Congress is poised to do what no American family would ever do. Congress is poised to spend one-third more dollars than they receive. This is essentially equivalent to a family at home making $45,000 but spending $60,000. No American…

I ask unanimous consent that the next four amendments be considered simultaneously and individually; that each individual amendment be listed at the table by number; that over the next 15 minutes we will vote on all four. Each person who…

The research was incredibly dangerous, and we got a pandemic because of that.

I think Senator Hawley did a great job with the bill and I support the bill to declassify it.

I want to see the deliberations.

The power of the purse still could be used, but it is never used.

I want to make sure this does not happen again.

I cannot think of a record request I will not sign, but we still are having trouble getting these records.

I think Senator Hawley did a great job with the bill and I support the bill to declassify it.

It is kind of an old statute and it is not modern.

The research was incredibly dangerous, and we got a pandemic because of that.

It is disappointing because Senator Peters has signed now several letters, and one of them is probably six months old.

I cannot think of a record request I will not sign, but we still are having trouble getting these records.

I want to make sure this does not happen again.