Matt Rosendale: “No good deed goes unpunished. I will tell you; I have held the hands of crying widows when their husbands passed away…”

“No good deed goes unpunished. I will tell you; I have held the hands of crying widows when their husbands passed away and they were not allowed to visit them in the hospital because of all the mandates from COVID-19 that bureaucrats had put in place. Our public health experts, Mr. Chair, have been wrong about everything from the beginning on COVID-19. They told us that masks would work. They told us that vaccines would prevent transmission. They told us that shutting down our country was necessary in order to keep COVID-19 from spreading. They were all wrong. They were wrong for bringing the virus to our country and experimenting on gain of function anyway, so excuse me if I don't take the recommendations of the experts. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Chair, this lack of pursuing scientific knowledge, scientific research--and the gentleman earlier spoke about Dr. Anthony Fauci. Dr. Fauci, his contributions to HIV/AIDS research for over 50 years and other immunodeficiency diseases is heralded in the annals of Discovery to Cure. This basic view that the pursuit of the answers to chronic illnesses, to diseases, to pandemics somehow is not understood for what its potential is and what it can do to save lives.…”