Republicans Are Addressing the Major Crises

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Mr. BABIN. Mr. Speaker, I thank my good friend from Florida, a former mayor, for yielding. I am a former mayor myself.

Mr. Speaker, every single action that the Chinese Communist Party takes leaves me with no doubt that they are not friends of ours. For years, Beijing has stolen American intelligence, technology, and intellectual property in their relentless pursuit to supersede us as the number one superpower in the world.

So it should come as no surprise to anyone that more than a year after COVID-19 magically manifested itself and escaped China and took the world by storm, killing millions, we are still asking ourselves: How did it happen? Is there something that China is not telling us?

The simple answer is yes, there is plenty that the CCP is not telling us. We can't even begin to solve the question of how this happened until we start a formal investigation.

Unfortunately, it is not just the CCP who refuses to allow a transparent and thorough investigation into the pandemic's origins. It is also my colleagues across the aisle. After all, secrecy and diversion seem to be a standard practice for both the Democrat Party and Beijing.

Why are the Democrats refusing to allocate resources so that we can solve the problems and questions surrounding something this major?

They are perfectly happy to spend $1.9 billion of Americans' hard- earned tax dollars for security upgrades to the Capitol complex due to the events of January 6, where one person died, but cannot be bothered to spend a dime to investigate how 600,000 Americans died.

There is mounting evidence that the COVID-19 pandemic started in a Chinese laboratory and that the Chinese Communist Party covered it up.

Don't the more than 33 million Americans who have been infected with COVID and the loved ones of the more than 600,000 Americans who passed away from it deserve an explanation?

To blindly just believe that this global pandemic started from a bat in a wet market in the very same city where genetic analyses of coronaviruses are done at the Wuhan Institute of Virology without doing any sort of an investigation is a dereliction of our duty. It is inexcusable and downright ignorant.

This administration and this Congress must hold the Chinese Communist Party's feet to the fire and give us some answers. We deserve the truth.

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