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Rand Paul asks NIH to preserve all of Dr. Anthony Fauci's documents for upcoming GOP oversight



Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday asked the National Institutes of Health to preserve all of outgoing White House chief medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci's documents and communications.

In a letter addressed to acting NIH director Dr. Lawrence Tabak, Paul requested that all of Fauci's documents be preserved for future congressional oversight investigations, placing special emphasis on communications related to coronavirus research funded by Fauci's agency.

The letter was sent after Fauci announced on Monday he would step down from his role as the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in December.

"I formally request you ensure the preservation of all documents and communications within Dr. Fauci's posession related to his tenure at the National Institutes of Health," Paul wrote. "This information is critical to ensure that Congress has access to information necessary to conduct proper oversight regarding events that took place during Dr. Fauci's tenure within the agency."

\u201cSen. Rand Paul just notified NIH to preserve all of Anthony Fauci's communications.\n\n"The American people deserve transparency and accountability from the NIH regarding the COVID-19 pandemic regardless of Dr. Fauci\u2019s future employment plans." https://t.co/D0YhByNntH\u201d
— Paul D. Thacker (@Paul D. Thacker) 1661282840

Paul requested that all records, email, electronic documents, and data "created or shared with Dr. Fauci" during his more than three-decade tenure at the agency be preserved. The Kentucky lawmaker emphasized that NIH should preserve documents related to federal funding for coronavirus research, which would include grants given EcoHealth Alliance, a nonprofit that sub-awarded NIH funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China to study bat coronaviruses.

"The American people deserve transparency and accountability from the NIH regarding the COVID-19 pandemic regardless of Dr. Fauci's future employment plans," Paul wrote.

EcoHealth's relationship with the Wuhan lab has been the subject of intense scrutiny by Paul and others who have alleged that gain-of-function research experiments conducted in China may be linked to the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. The senator has repeatedly confronted Fauci on gain-of-function research in highly publicized congressional hearings — during which Fauci has denied any wrongdoing and accused Paul of "distorting" facts to attack scientists.

Fauci, who announced on Monday he would leave the government but is not retiring, has served as the White House's chief spokesman for the COVID-19 pandemic over the last two years.

Republican lawmakers have suggested that the timing of Fauci's departure is convenient, given that the GOP is widely expected to retake at least the House of Representatives in November's midterm elections and will hold oversight hearings on Fauci's tenure should they indeed regain power.

Paul's demand that NIH preserve Fauci's records is but the latest indication that regardless of the outcome of the election, GOP lawmakers will attempt to hold Fauci accountable for his handling of the pandemic.

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Congressional Republicans submit a bill to define what a woman is



Republicans in Congress have introduced a bill to define what a woman is.

Republican Representative Debbie Lesko from Arizona sponsored a “Women’s Bill of Rights” to provide additional legal protections to women under federal law, RedState reported.

Noting that establishing a standard for identifying people on the basis of their sex is crucial to societal stability, H. Res. 1136 states: “[T]here are important reasons to distinguish between the sexes with respect to athletics, prisons, domestic violence shelters, restrooms, and other areas, particularly where biology, safety, and privacy are implicated.”

The proposed legislation states that “males and females possess unique and immutable biological difference that manifest prior to birth and increase as they age and experience puberty” and that “biological differences between the sexes can expose females to more harm than males from specific forms of violence, including sexual violence.”

It even defies current leftwing orthodoxy by declaring that only women are able to get pregnant. The bill states “biological difference between the sexes mean that only females may get pregnant, give birth, and breastfeed children.”

The bill also indicates that motherhood and fatherhood are reserved for women and men respectively. The bill states “for purposes of Federal law, the word ‘mother’ means a parent of the female sex and ‘father’ is defined as a parent of the male sex.”

Republican Reps. Jim Banks of Indiana, Mary Miller of Illinois, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, Claudia Tenney of New York, Vicky Hartzler of Missouri, Doug Lambron of Kansas, Ronny Jackson of Texas, Doug LaMalfa, Victoria Spartz of Indiana, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, and Barry Moore of Alabama submitted the bill along side Lesko.

Banks, who also serves as the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, argued that this legislation is critical in order to protect the rights of women from leftist attacks.

He said, “The modern Democrat party has put the Left’s woke agenda before the rights of women. These days, Democrats refuse to even admit women exist or recognize them as unique beings, with unique abilities. While radical liberals strip away the progress and protections that generations of women fought to achieve. Republicans must fight back and acknowledge these basic biological truths. AS the father of three daughters, I’m proud to co-lead this resolution reaffirming the legal protections afforded to them under federal law.”

According to a press release from the Republican Study Committee, H. Res. 1136 is also supported by several outside women’s interest organizations such as the Independent Women’s Law Center, Concerned Women for America LAC, Women’s Liberation Front, and the Eagle Forum.