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Senate Committee Votes to Hold Anthony Fauci in Contempt of Congress

Senate Committee Votes to Hold Anthony Fauci in Contempt of Congress | AC13

GBS

Aug 6, 2026  

The U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted along party lines to approve a resolution holding Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he declined to answer questions during a recent hearing, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights. Committee Chairman Rand Paul argued that Fauci defied a lawful congressional order, while Democratic members warned the action could undermine constitutional protections and discourage future witnesses from testifying before Congress.

Watch the key moments from the committee hearing, reactions from lawmakers, and the latest developments surrounding the contempt resolution and its potential next steps.

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July 30, 2026 NewsHound



Dr. Anthony Fauci’s July 29, 2026, appearance before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, was a contentious spectacle marked by his repeated invocation of the Fifth Amendment.

The 85-year-old former NIAID director, subpoenaed after declining voluntary testimony, opened by accusing Paul of an “obvious obsession” and “unhinged” campaign aimed at putting him “behind bars.” He cited Paul’s prior calls for prosecution, critical comments, and the recent public release of Fauci’s unredacted personal diary. On advice of counsel, he then declined nearly every question—invoking the Fifth roughly 111 times (reports range from over 100 to about 115)—with the fixed reply that he declined based on his constitutional rights against self-incrimination.

Compounding the optics was the preemptive “full and unconditional” pardon Biden granted Fauci on January 19, 2025—his final full day in office—covering any potential offenses from 2014 tied to his government service. That document was executed via autopen, the mechanical signature device, amid later revelations that White House staff (including then-Chief of Staff Jeff Zients) authorized its use after late-night meetings, with limited contemporaneous evidence of Biden’s direct personal review of every name. Critics have hammered the process as a last-minute shield that bypassed traditional accountability, raising unresolved questions about presidential intent and validity even as Biden insisted he made the decisions and that autopen use is longstanding and legal. The pardon did not cover potential new perjury or obstruction from this hearing itself, leaving Fauci still vulnerable and the Fifth as his remaining fortress.

Questions covered long-disputed topics: NIH funding related to gain-of-function research, the Wuhan lab and COVID-19 origins, pandemic response decisions, diary entries, and even trivial probes (tie color, carpet color) meant to test the scope of the privilege. Fauci answered no questions substantively. One of his attorneys was ejected after attempting to interject. Paul and other Republicans expressed frustration, warned of obstruction consequences, and signaled plans for a contempt-of-Congress vote, arguing the prior Biden preemptive pardon (covering actions through early 2025) limited the privilege’s applicability to new testimony risks such as perjury.



Fauci framed the hearing as a political trap rather than legitimate oversight, noting his extensive prior congressional appearances without invoking the Fifth. Supporters of the inquiry viewed the blanket silence as obstructive and damaging to accountability on pandemic policy and research. Critics of the proceedings saw it as a partisan exercise unlikely to yield new facts given the adversarial history between Paul and Fauci. The session produced no substantive answers, amplified existing divides over COVID origins and handling, and left legal questions (contempt, the interplay of pardon and privilege) for further process. It underscored how polarized the residual debates remain, 5-6 years later.

[BREAKING: Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is sending a plane to Washington DC to obtain mountains of evidence against Dr. Fauci so a state-level case can be brought — CIRCUMVENTING the pardon]

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Streamed live on Jul 21, 2026

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The Honorable Michael Kozak

Senior Bureau Official

Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs

U.S. Department of State

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U.S. Department of War

Confronting Haiti’s Terrorist Gangs: The Gang Suppression Force and the Path Ahead

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Catholic commissioner removed from White House Religious Liberty Commission

Religious Liberty Commission Hearing on Feb. 9. Department of Justice video screengrab / YouTube

Elise Winland on February 11, 2026

Carrie Prejean Boller, a Catholic commissioner on the White House Religious Liberty Commission, was removed from the panel Feb. 11 after arguing during a hearing that her Catholic faith does not require support for political Zionism and that criticism of Israel’s actions in Gaza should not automatically be labeled antisemitic.

Republican Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who chairs the commission, announced the decision in a post on X.

“No member of the Commission has the right to hijack a hearing for their own personal and political agenda on any issue,” Patrick wrote. “This is clearly, without question, what happened Monday in our hearing on antisemitism in America. This was my decision.”

During the Feb. 9 hearing, which focused on debates and riots on American college campuses and the role of government officials in protecting religious freedom, Prejean Boller cited multiple Catholic scholars, Scripture passages, and Jewish leaders to support her position and pressed witnesses on whether they believed her opposition to Zionism, grounded in religious conviction, made her “antisemitic.”

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