{"id":353509,"date":"2026-08-06T10:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/senate-committee-votes-to-hold-fauci-in-contempt-of-congress"},"modified":"2026-08-06T10:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T15:22:12","slug":"senate-committee-votes-to-hold-fauci-in-contempt-of-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/senate-committee-votes-to-hold-fauci-in-contempt-of-congress","title":{"rendered":"Senate committee votes to carry Fauci in contempt of Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress.<\/p>\n

The committee’s party-line vote of 8-5 comes after Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment <\/a>against self-incrimination and declined to answer questions at a hearing last week about his role in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and its origins.<\/p>\n

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A contempt resolution would normally now head to the full Senate, where it would require 60 votes. It is unlikely the Fauci resolution would receive enough support in the full Senate to pass.<\/p>\n

Democrats attempted several times on Thursday to table the resolution but were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n

Republican Sen.\u00a0Rand Paul, the committee’s chair, said Fauci could not plead the Fifth Amendment given he was preemptively pardoned by President Joe Biden out of fear of political prosecution.<\/p>\n

“Dr.\u00a0Fauci’s assertion of the Fifth Amendment privilege was unsupported in light of the pardon and the testimony he offered in his opening statement,” Paul said ahead of the vote.<\/p>\n

“We\u00a0are voting on whether a witness who has received the benefit of a sweeping federal pardon can be ordered by this committee to answer questions and then defy that order without consequence,”\u00a0Paul added.<\/p>\n

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Chairman Sen. Rand Paul presides over a vote whether to hold Anthony Fauci, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases in contempt on Capitol Hill in Washington, August 6, 2026.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Democratic Sen. Gary Peters, the committee’s ranking member, criticized\u00a0the vote and the “damaging precedent” it sets, saying\u00a0this “could harm our ability to conduct future investigations and disregards constitutional protections long recognized by the U.S. Senate.”<\/p>\n

“This resolution will not provide the committee with any additional information, or compel Dr. Fauci to provide answers to our inquiries. Criminal contempt is punitive; it does not compel a witness to answer questions or produce the documents we’d all like to see,” Peters said.<\/p>\n

Peters also condemned Paul’s suggestion of possibly referring the contempt resolution directly to the Department of Justice after the vote, saying “that would be even more dangerous and widely unprecedented move.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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