{"id":35567,"date":"2021-05-24T18:46:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T01:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35567"},"modified":"2021-05-24T18:46:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T01:46:57","slug":"gop-want-answers-on-virus-origins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=35567","title":{"rendered":"GOP want answers on virus origins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the GOP Whip and ranking member of the Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lkkqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmmqqqhn_ozftwwjzjdtlztmqrrjf.html?a=&amp;b=39359\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lkkqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwcmmqqqhn_ozftwwjzjdtlztmqrrjf.html?a%3D%26b%3D39359&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1621986594144000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFBQTIgDhj66R1HZ5TMRxis1RrKrQ\">co-signed a letter<\/a>\u00a0with Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the top Republican on the House Oversight Committee, demanding both committees launch investigations into the origins of the virus.<\/p>\n<p>They said the blame falls squarely on the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).<\/p>\n<p>According to the Republicans, &#8220;there is evidence the CCP started the pandemic, covered it up, and is responsible for the deaths of almost 600,000 Americans and millions more worldwide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next up:\u00a0<\/strong>Rep. Bill Foster (D-Ill.) last week said he would hold a hearing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can assure you that our hearings will be a rational discussion among scientists, rather than a blizzard of semi-informed talking points designed for social media,&#8221; Foster said.<\/p>\n<p>But Foster is chairman of the Science and Technology oversight subcommittee, which is not where Republicans want it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.), the GOP&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35568,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35567\/revisions\/35568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}