House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., outlined what Republicans will do if they regain the majority in the House of Representatives, stressing that a bipartisan committee on China will be created and the origins of the coronavirus pandemic will be investigated.
Last month, Congressional Republicans filed a joint letter to President Biden demanding greater transparency and more active cooperation with investigations into the origins of the COVID-19. GOP officials say that sources in the federal government and military who have been tapped for information regarding the pandemic have failed to properly respond.
The letter, sent by Reps. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, Frank Lucas, R-Okla., and Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., raises issues with a number of perceived gaps in public knowledge, including military research and intelligence.
House Foreign Affairs Committee Republicans released the results of their probe into the possible origins of COVID-19 in August, with ranking member McCaul accusing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) of engaging in the “greatest cover-up in human history.”
Many of the key points from the report focused on activities in and around Wuhan that appeared to indicate the virus may have been circulating in China as early as September 2019. This was well before the World Health Organization’s Country Office in the People’s Republic of China picked up a press statement on Dec. 31, 2019, by the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission from its website on cases of “viral pneumonia” in Wuhan.
