Senate panel votes to hold Dr. Fauci in contempt

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The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8–5, along party lines, on Thursday to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress for pleading the Fifth and refusing to answer questions during a hearing last week 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 refusing to answer questions due to Chair Rand Paul's (R-KY) "obvious obsession" with calling for his prosecution and "repeated slanderous comments" about him. "The only conclusion I can reach is that the sole reason he is calling me before this committee is to get me to say something, anything that could vindicate his repeated public pledges that I end up, in his words, 'behind bars,'" he said. Sen. Paul argued Dr. Fauci's pardon, issued in the final days of the Biden administration, made that argument moot, and said "a subpoena is not an invitation." "Seeking the truth is not a witch