[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 19, 2023)]
[House]
[Page H1875]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               UNCOVERING THE ORIGINS OF THE CORONAVIRUS

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, during a House Select Subcommittee on the 
Coronavirus Pandemic hearing yesterday, former Director of National 
Intelligence Ratcliffe testified that a lab leak is the only 
explanation credibly supported by our intelligence, by science, and by 
common sense.
  On Monday morning, a new Senate report concluded there were two leaks 
from the Wuhan lab in 2019 and this Nation had funded gain-of-function 
research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
  At the same Tuesday hearing, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
State David Feith revealed that the State Department tried hiding 
evidence of U.S. funded gain-of-function research, arguing it could 
open a Pandora's box.
  In other words, they concluded it would be easier to lie, therefore, 
endanger the American people and the world because telling the truth 
would expose a lot of difficult questions.
  These revelations are further proof of what many Americans already 
know to be true: Dr. Anthony Fauci misled the public continuously 
during the pandemic about the origins of this virus and the risk of 
gain-of-function research.
  People in our own government aided this for various reasons, 
selfishly wanting to defraud and endanger the public while they pursued 
their own goals. Director Ratcliffe's and Mr. Feith's testimony, as 
well as the Senate report, should disturb every lawmaker in this 
Chamber.

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