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Dr. Paul Addresses Letter Demanding HHS and NIH Emails Discussing Origin of COVID-19 Video...

Rand Paul, the outspoken Republican senator from Kentucky, certainly has controversial points of view on wearing masks, the 2020 election results and government shut downs. But Paul, who has served in the Senate for more than a decade, also serves as the ranking minority member of the Senate's Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee. An ophthalmologist, Paul sits on this committee not only because he has a background in running a small business (he worked in two small medical practices before running his own in Bowling Green, Kentucky), but also because he passionately believes that our country's small businesses are at...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following a recent exchange on the possible origins of the Coronavirus at a Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP) Committee hearing with Dr. Fauci, U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) introduced an amendment that would ban the funding of gain-of-function research in China. “We don’t know whether the pandemic started in a lab in Wuhan or evolved naturally,” Dr. Paul said. “ While Washington bureaucrats deny funding gain-of-function research in Wuhan, experts believe otherwise. My amendment will ensure that this never happens in the future.” Senate Amendment 1707 bans National Institutes of Health and any other U.S. agency...