{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffanys-legislation-requiring-senate-approval-any-world-health-organization", "Tiffany\u2019s Legislation Requiring Senate Approval of Any World Health Organization Treaty Passes Out of House Committee", "2024-07-11", "2024", "2024-07", "Republican", "House", "WI", "Thomas P. Tiffany", "T000165", "tiffany.house.gov", "tiffany", "https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Tom Tiffany\u2019s (WI-07) legislation \u2013 the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act \u2013 passed out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This legislation would require any convention or agreement resulting from the work of the World Health Organization\u2019s (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body to be deemed a treaty, thus requiring the advice and consent of a supermajority of the Senate.\n\nThis comes after the WHO failed to finalize their pandemic global treaty during the World Health Assembly earlier this year, but WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated, \u201cWe will try everything \u2014 believing that anything is possible \u2014 and make this happen because the world still needs a pandemic treaty.\u201d\n\n\"Under no circumstances should the Biden administration surrender our pandemic management to international bureaucrats at the World Health Organization and United Nations. The WHO has repeatedly shown that they cannot be trusted to carry out an effective pandemic response. Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee took an important step to protect American sovereignty,\u201d said Congressman Tiffany.\n\n59 Members of Congress cosponsored Rep. Tiffany\u2019s No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has introduced identical legislation in the Senate and every Republican senator is a cosponsor.\n\nH.R. 1425 is also supported by the Center for Family and Human Rights, Eagle Forum, Family Research Council, Family Watch International, Heritage Action, Sovereignty Coalition, and Women\u2019s Rights Without Frontiers.\n\nYou can read more about H.R. 1425here.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:24:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://tiffany.house.gov/media/press-releases/tiffanys-legislation-requiring-senate-approval-any-world-health-organization"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.052432158961892, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}