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Rep. Wittman to Newsmax: Legislation Will Hold China Accountable on COVID
(Newsmax/"Wake Up America")
By Sandy Fitzgerald | Thursday, 17 June 2021 08:43 AM
Rep. Rob Wittman, one of the House Republicans who introduced a bill this week calling for sanctions on top Chinese health officials and an independent investigation into the Wuhan Institute of Virology in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, told Newsmax Thursday that the measure is critical for holding China accountable.
"We know those Chinese health officials with early ties to COVID-19 obfuscated data," the Virginia Republican said on Newsmax's "Wake Up America." "They were not direct and forthright with what happened there in the laboratory, and if we can't get the truth about what happened, then, first of all, I believe that we have to infer Chinese actions as not being friendly to the rest of the world and we can't learn what we need to do to prevent this from happening again."
Wittman said he wants to point to President Joe Biden, who said he wanted to send American scientists to China to investigate the virus' origins and "now they're backing away from that."
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