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Tommy also informed me that a few people in OMB were very pissed off at me because I testified at the 2 Senate Hearings (especially the Specter Appropriations Hearing) that we needed $200 million more in FY2002 for BT.

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The House and the Senate Committees have adapted the language that I had suggested to Richard Falkenrath.

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I have testified at >6 Congressional Hearings over the past few days on SARS, Appropriations, AIDS, Biodefense, etc.

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May 14 - 20, 2003 - Continued doing Congressional briefings and Hearings on BioShield and SARS.

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It was a very friendly hearing and very complimentary to me and the others.

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Nonetheless, the press has jumped on this and I have been on CNN a few times, Jim Lehrer Newshour, Lou Dobbs (CNN) and CSPAN for a Congressional Hearing on Flu (Energy and Commerce with Chairman Deal).

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In addition, on June 13 we had a Hearing of the House Government Reform Committee for Biodefense chaired by Rep.

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Had 2 more Hearings within said period: 1) Senate Foreign Relations on HIV Vaccines with actress Ashley Judd; 2) Hearing of House Government Reform Committee on Influenza Pandemic Threat.

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Today had Hearing on success or failure of Project BioShield.

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Now we have a Hearing where the Congress is chiding us since we have not gotten enough products through BioShield.

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This was a tougher Hearing in that this Committee is generally tough.

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Also, I am hearing that the White House knows how disorganized they are and are getting anxious The attacks in the press on Stewart Simonson seem to be winding down, but Sarah Luecke of the WSJ will be coming out with a big article.

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She had just testified at the BioShield Hearing on the Hill and wanted to get my perspective on how things were going with the Biodefense effort and if there was anything that she could do for me.

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Had House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing today and it went well.

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Hearing called because several of the companies that were trying for Bioshield procurement contracts had failed, i.e.

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May 10-14, 2007 - Had one of the most intensely busy weeks in recent memory with preparations (rehearsals) for my upcoming Board of Scientific Counselors review of LIR, NIH Budget Retreat, NIH Roadmap Retreat, Commencement Address at Penn State, Major talk in Miami to AAI, NIAID National Advisory Council Meeting, and Senate srsity College of Extremely busy: Appropriations Hearing Testimony - all in 5 working days.

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Friendly Hearing but budget is depressing - flat. 2) in the late afternoon - House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee Hearing on Antibiotic Resistance chaired by Frank Pallone (D-NJ).

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May 11, 2011 - Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing for the 2012 NIH budget.

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Also see below e-mail from Nov. 3 from Michael Iskowitz describing what the community actually is hearing about.

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Unusual situation that the Hearing was confined to a discussion about NCATS.

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Too bad that these hearing are only a total of 2 hours when we used to have 2 hours for NIAID alone.

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Paul Keim more and more is making me believe that he is a poor Chair of NSABB and a weak person in that he continuously says that Mike Osterholm is off base with his letter to Amy and then he defends him strongly at the Hearing.

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I have a Senate Hearing coming up on April 26 where much of this will get hashed out.

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May 15, 2013 - Testified at the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing for NIH today.

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As mentioned many times above, the Hearings are very different from 10-20 years ago.

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We had 2 hours for the entire NIH, when back then we had a week of Hearing with individual half-days for the big institutes.

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Sept. 18, 2014 - Yesterday had Hearing before the House Subcommittee on Foreign Affairs (Africa) chaired by Chris Smith.

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Questions were related to Rand Paul and Bobby Jindal saying that we should shut down flights from West Africa.

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Also, there was concern on Rand Paul's part that our 3000 to 4000 troops that we are sending to West Africa will get infected and bring Ebola back to the USA.

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It was a lively hearing that went very well but with some interesting sharp interchanges between me and Dr.

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He is a physician who tried to show off about his medical knowledge in the hearing; however, during the exchange it became clear that he really did not know what he was talking about.

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Now Rand Paul is weighing in saying parents should decide about vaccinations.

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Feb. 3, 2015 - Testified today at Congressional Hearing of Commerce and Energy oversight Committee (Tim Murphy (R-PA) Chair on Influenza and why the match of vaccine was wrong.

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Still great press interest in the Measles situation now that Presidential hopefuls Chris Christie, Rand Paul and others have commented on it.

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Rand Paul put his foot in his mouth by saying that there are reports of children who walk and talk normally before MMR and then immediately after, they can no longer walk, talk, and are autistic.

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As usual for the past few years, it was only a 2 hour Hearing with Francis Collins testifying and me backing him up at the table together with Gary Gibbons (NHLBI), Tom Insel (NIMH), Nora Volkow (NIDA) and Jon Lorsch (NIGMS).

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Hearing started early (8:30 AM) since Benjamin Netanyahu was speaking before a Joint Session of Congress at the invitation of Speaker Boehner and against the wishes of Obama.

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During the Hearing Congressman Andy Harris (R-MD) made the point that he felt that we were spending too much on AIDS compared to other diseases with much more of a morbidity and mortality impact on the USA.

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Please go over or have someone go over to the VRC to get the 3D model of the entire hemagglutinin molecule as well as the model of the nanoparticle with the attached HA stem (the one that I showed at the recent Congressional Hearing).

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Please go over or have someone go over to the VRC to get the 3D model of the entire hemagglutinin molecule as well as the model of the nanoparticle with the attached HA stem (the one that I showed at the recent Congressional Hearing).

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Please go over or have someone go over to the VRC to get the 3D model of the entire hemagglutinin molecule as well as the model of the nanoparticle with the attached HA stem (the one that I showed at the recent Congressional Hearing).

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Please go over or have someone go over to the VRC to get the 3D model of the entire hemagglutinin molecule as well as the model of the nanoparticle with the attached HA stem (the one that I showed at the recent Congressional Hearing).

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It was scheduled that after the Hearing, Hahn, Birx and I should make comments first at the GOP Senate caucus lunch and then the Dem.

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Before Hearing we were told that the POTUS wanted me at the White House at 12:30 PM for a meeting about travel restrictions that we had been discussing and the Hearing was supposed to end at 12;30PM ..

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We had our pre-brief for the Senate HELP Hearing on May 12 and we are trying to decide whether to call off the Hearing or do it virtually.

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Also, I do not want to do the Hearing in person on Tuesday, but Mark meadows is getting pressure from the POTUS and others in WH to have me do it in person.

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(this is why Mark was torn and wanted me to appear in person before the HELP Committee Hearing tomorrow - we discussed this by phone over the weekend and finally I convinced him to have all 4 of us - Giroir, Redfield, Hahn and me do the Hearing virtually) Call with Sen.

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Had a little scuffle with Rand Paul who said that I am not the end all and be all to close down the country.

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VP called me at 10:00 AM when I was driving with Farncois to the Hearing.

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Also, Rand Paul was his usual self obliquely accusing me of arrogance and conceit in making projections without data.

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Fauci will have full access to the Oval Office and an uncensored platform to speak ey to the PRESS: Much media coverage of the Hearing today.

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POTUS had press conference on COVID-19 without having me, Deb, or other TF members with him Meadows and now Rand Paul have been actively criticizing me for saying that NYC got it right in that after their peak, they brought the infections down and now have few hospitalizations and few deaths.

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Morocco Honduras Nepal Switzerland Tunisia Russia et i et le ee Ke ery fond of each Global USA Had Hearing today at the Senate HELP committee Chaired by Sen.

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Yup, I have been hearing you saying this for years - for Ebola too.

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Look forward to hearing from Andrew, who wil recognise a lot of his text from channel above. @Kristian Andersen is good at direct language so can help with the bits that need that.

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Jordan at the E and C Hearing - CNN covered it extensively and Jimmy Kimmel had it in his monologue; Reuters TV interview with Julie Steenhuysen; Had conversation with member of NY Times editorial board member Jeneen Interlandi about 1 dose versus 2 doses.

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Had nice dinner over Ellen Sigal's home with Diana DeGette, Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

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Although this is still at the level of anecdote, I am hearing from people who are doing studies in vitro that the B.1.617 variant is at least as concerning as the B.1.351.

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May 11, 2021 - Global - 158,700,000/3,300,000; USA - 32,600,000/579,400 Numbers coming down: • Senate HELP Hearing today with Kessler, Walensky and Peter Marks.

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May 13, 2021 - Global USA • My conversation with Rochelle the night before the hearing must have worked.

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Updated Global - USA New Daily Confirmed COVID-19 Cases in the U.S, La ra = aT Bir Thr byt ae TEE bie azz Tye bE TRIE bee iit oe ea| OZeT ELfel SETI reir Stitt Bite TTT mali SUT TTT fhe bia EG Des Ens ole one B1fg tWE ans TAs bis TES bee is OWS Bs oar Gir tr gr ane rue aVe 2020/2021 Rand Paul continues to act disrespectful to me and like a complete idiot.

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It's also of course precisely where Rand Paul/Fox News and some of the other certifiably crazy politicos are coming from.

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Very much looking forward to hearing what the Bloomshitters and the Parasites will say about this....

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May 25, 2021 - Global - 167,000,000/3,500,000; USA - 33,000,000/587,800 • We had the House Appropriations Subcommittee Hearing today (virtually). it went well except for some snarky comments by Congressman Andy Harris concerning the origin of the virus.

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The far right is really amazing in their distortion of reality. • We had our Hearing today before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee chaired by senator Patty Murray with ranking minority Roy Blount.

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ET, Republican Whip and Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis Ranking Member Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Committee on Oversight and Reform Ranking Member James Comer (R-Ky.), and Select Subcommittee Republican lawmakers will hold a forum with expert witnesses to examine the origins of the coronavirus.

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His testimony will provide inside information into the origins investigation and the role of the Chinese government's efforts to block a thorough and impartial investigation. ● Dr.

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June 27, 2021 - Cases continue to slowly come down: PRESS: Latest thing on Fox News over the last couple of days is that they are accusing me a lying under oath at a house and energy subcommittee hearing when I said That I did not know the precise reason why the president told us to cancel the WuHan grant.

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PRESS: Constituency Hispanic TV (x3); NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt; ABC World News Tonight; PBS NewsHour with Judy Woodruff; PSAs; CNN with Don Lemon; See below: This is the Hearing that the GOP called with crazy witnesses and they wanted Francis Collins and I to testify.

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July 20, 2021 - Global - 191,000,000/4,100,000; USA - 34,000,000/607,000 Testified today before the Senate HELP Subcommittee - There was the expected big splash at the hearing today As Senator Rand Paul accused me of lying under oath at a prior hearing and asked me if I wanted to retract my statement when I said that the NIAID has never funded nor does it funds now gain of function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

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Beth indicated that I was her hero for what I did with Rand Paul and that she had heard from Eric Lander that I was discussing with him the issue of the $30 billion.

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At the same time he together with his Greek chorus of Rand Paul and other GOP members of Congress together with all of the stooges at Fox News (Carlson, Hannity, Ingraham), continues to actively criticize me and talk virtually every day about my being wrong on everything I say and then I should be fired.

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My staff wants me to lay low a little bit as we approach the Senate HELP hearing on November 4 since there certainly will be a lot of fireworks with Rand Paul and others.

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I don't know about you, but I'm totally sick of hearing about that conference call.

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Fortunately, I was on the Sunday TV Show this morning (see below) with George Stephanopoulos where George gave me the opportunity to refute Rand Paul who will be saying tonight on HBO that I lied and that the President should fire me.

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He wants to be able to tweet after the hearing that whatever I said was lying underoath similar to what he had said before.

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During the last Hearing I had a direct conflict with him in which he accused me of being responsible for the death of four million people by funding research at Wuhan.

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I called out Rand Paul, Ted Cruz and the far right Republicans that have been slamming me.

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I am sorry that I did not have time to read the entire book carefully (except for Chapter 9), but I have another Senate HELP hearing on Tuesday and I need to prepare over the weekend.

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this is what happened when you get named checked by Rand Paul [shared file(s): image.png]

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It looks to me as if these were sections Francis Collins put in an email on 2/2 (based on how it's put here: https://republicans-oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Letter-Re.-Feb-1-Emails-011122.pdf).

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The GOP will take the house later this year by which time myself and Bob will find ourselves subpoenad to appear in front of congress.

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(I'm 95% certain we'll be subpoenaed, but I don't think they'll ask for all our correspondence - unless it ends up in a lawsuit, but that makes absolutely no sense since we're talking about writingg'damn scientific papers!

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No, we can't control what the GOP thinks - however, once they take the house, Daszak, Bob, myself, and others willbe subpoenaed because they clearly want all this information.

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I don't think we should ever release the emails, unless we're forced to via legal proceedings (in this case, eitherlawsuits or subpoenas).The drafts are different - they show the linear logic of how we came to our conclusions after the call and why there's absolutely nothing to hide here.

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It's all a conspiracy theory, but that matters little once they take over the House - that's when the subpoenas will start flying.

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But again, once they become the majority, they have full subpoena power and that changes everything - it's very important to control as much of the narrative as possible before that happens.

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Absolutely, but the problem is that once they take the House (in November) they'll subpoena me (and Bob) and _that_ I/we cannot decline.

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(unless they later request them via a subpoena - then all bets are off)

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This will be a good one to be subpoena'ed: > He's about where we were a week ago.

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Yeah - just keep in mind what that could mean for a future subpoena.

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Rand Paul was his usual stupid self asking questions about royalty payments.

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It was a three hour hearing and I was exhausted but I made it through.

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Cases, deaths, and hospitalizations seem to have stabilized and are not coming down any further: PRESS: Politico: Covid doesn't stop Anthony Fauci from taking on Rand Paul - again The two engaged in their usual heated debate at a Senate HELP Committee hearing on Thursday. ey the Bear got

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Once per year the minority are allowed to call a hearing and so Paul et al are using this as a publicity stunt.

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Diana is the current Chair of the Energy and Commerce oversight committee and if the GOP wins the House, she will be the ranking minority member.

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This is very good for me but it doesn't completely shield me from there attacks which I need to be prepared for that will come either in the House with Jim Jordan et al or in the Senate with Rand Paul et al.

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September 26, 2022 at 9:35 PM EDT Rick Bright, a former US health official who condemned the Trump administration's Covid-19 response, is leaving a Rockefeller Foundation pandemic prevention effort just over a year and a half after being tapped to lead it. https://twitter.com/RanBalicer/status/1574742090797522944/photo/1 Omicron severe illness rates among infected: Maximal risk stratum, age 70+, Jan-Aug 2022 3.1% 1-7 GOSe5 Unvaccinated Spectrum News: Rand Paul pushing back against additional COVID funds that I and our HHS/WH colleagues are asking for: Sen.

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Paul's contempt for expertise, his spread of conspiracy theories, his use of oversight as ambush -- all this indicates a performative approach to governing.

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In terview with spaper particular, they will not be able to provide me with legal backup if I get called before oversight committees if the GOP takes over the Congress.

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