Showing posts with label hearing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hearing. Show all posts

Thursday, July 30, 2026

Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment in Rand Paul Senate hearing : NPR

A spokesperson for Fauci sent a document fact-checking Paul's claims and a letter written by Fauci's legal team to Paul last month. In that letter, Fauci's lawyers wrote Paul was waging a "years-long public crusade" against Fauci. 

"You are single-mindedly fixating on seeing Dr. Fauci prosecuted for imaginary crimes, and you are so invested in that outcome that you have created a personal brand around it," says the letter, which NPR reviewed…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/07/29/nx-s1-5910542/fauci-rand-paul-diary-coronavirus-origin-lab-leak-hearing


 

Anthony Fauci’s high-profile Senate hearing: what we learned

Canceling grants based on political priorities, trialled at the National Institutes of Health in 2025, are now the basis of a proposed rule that would bring the $1tn entire federal grant-making apparatus under the control of political appointees. 

Wednesday’s hearing was another example of how criticizing scientists has become an important outlet for the party – and where relitigating the Covid crisis justifies skepticism of a broad range of science. 

“For the past 18 months, the Trump administration has been engaged in a campaign to rewrite this history,” said Senator Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat of Connecticut, about the darkest days of the pandemic, when hospitals overflowed and researchers worked on hyper-speed to understand the virus. “Today’s proceeding, I fear, is part of that effort.”…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/anthony-fauci-senate-covid-hearing-takeaways 


Wednesday, March 4, 2026

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem testifies before Senate : NPR

Tillis also threatened to block nominees and bills from advancing the committee to floor votes if he did not get answers soon regarding immigration enforcement in North Carolina. 

"And in two weeks, if I don't get a response, I'm going to deny quorum and mark up in as many committees as I can until I get a response," he fumed...

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/03/nx-s1-5732788/kristi-noem-judiciary-hearing-homeland-security 


 

Wednesday, February 11, 2026

ICE chief defends his officers to Congress as lawmakers mull DHS funding - POLITICO

Scott and Lyons both declined to comment on the specifics of the Pretti and Good cases, noting that investigations are ongoing. Lyons, however, did rule out resigning over the shootings and argued that rhetoric from Democrats is causing incidents, not the tactics ICE and other immigration officers are using in the field...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/02/10/ice-todd-lyons-dhs-funding-hearing-00774309


 








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