Paul on bypassing full Senate on Fauci contempt resolution

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Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), the chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said he will directly refer the committee-approved resolution to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt to the Justice Department, but that he hasn't ruled out bringing it before the full Senate. "We will forward it. It's the committee's verdict that he should be held in contempt, and it will be sent. But no one said that we won't bring it before the Senate," he told reporters. "There is some precedent for doing it that way." The Senate panel voted 8–5, along party lines, to hold the infectious disease expert in contempt of Congress for pleading the Fifth and refusing to answer senators' questions at last week's hearing on the origins of COVID-19. Dr. Fauci, who retired in 2022 after a decades-long run as director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told senators last week he was pleading the Fifth due to Sen. Paul's "obvious obsession" with calling for his prosecu