On Friday, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a coronavirus origins declassification bill, sending the measure to President Joe Biden for his signature. The COVID-19 Origin Act, was sent to Biden by a 419-0 House vote, though It is still unclear if Biden will sign the bipartisan law.
The bill, if signed into law, would require the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to declassify and make public any potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of the deadly Coronavirus. On March 1, the bill was approved by the Senate, also by unanimous consent.
This bipartisan effort, to make public any links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of the coronavirus, comes after the Wall Street Journal reported the Energy Department had determined that coronavirus most likely came from a laboratory in China. Republicans, have long questioned if the pandemic originated in China.
In 2021, Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) was one of the strongest skeptics of the establishment media’s narrative that the pandemic did not originate from a Chinese lab. He stated at the time-
“The common-sense case for a lab leak is the same as it was in January 2020, when I first mentioned the possibility,”
-Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Another Republican, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) has also consistently questioned the narrative. After the Journal’s report, Paul tweeted the leak from the Journal’s report should be declassified. He tweeted-
“Classified documents leaked (they should be declassified!) showing scientists at DOE believe COVID leaked from Wuhan Lab,”
-Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)
As such the report caused Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) to introduce the Senate declassification legislation. He tweeted-
“The American people deserve the full truth about #COVID origins. No more whitewash. I will again introduce legislation to make the U.S. government’s intelligence reports on COVID more open to the public,”
-Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO)
truth regarding the origin of this virus that clamed so many lives and has forever changed the way this nation thinks about being a community. Understanding who is responsible is important. America needs to be made aware how, or if, we can prevent anything like this from happening ever again. The truth matters.
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
-Oscar Wilde