{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-slams-fauci-aligned-scientist-who-peddled-covid-origins-propaganda-and-aided-censorship-of-lab-leak-theory/", "Hawley Slams Fauci-Aligned Scientist\u00a0Who Peddled COVID Origins Propaganda and Aided\u00a0Censorship of Lab Leak Theory", "2024-06-18", "2024", "2024-06", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "In a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing today, U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) criticized professor and scientist Dr. Robert Garry for continuing to peddle propaganda about the origin of COVID-19.\n\n\u201cOur own government deliberately withheld information . . . from the American people, tried to propagandize the American people, used the arms and agencies of government to actively censor Americans who dared to question the propaganda,\u201d Senator Hawley said. \u201cAnd they\u2019re still lying to us.\u201d\n\nWatch the full exchange here or above.\n\nSenator Hawley further pressed Dr. Garry on his research work that the Biden administration used to justify its censorship of countless Americans on social media.\n\n\u201cPeople . . . lost their jobs, they lost their standing, they were kicked off Facebook, they were kicked off Twitter. Do you regret being part of this effort, this propaganda effort?\u201d asked Senator Hawley.\n\nSenator Hawley has a proven track record of fighting for transparency behind the origins of COVID.\n\nIn March of 2023, President Biden signed Senator Hawley\u2019s COVID Origins Actinto law. The legislation required the Biden administration to declassify all intelligence related to any potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of the Covid pandemic.\n\nSenator Hawley later called out the Biden administration for failing to comply with the COVID Origins Act after it only released a heavily redacted 10-page document consisting of a cover page and appendix that made up half of the report.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:24:47Z"]], "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://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-slams-fauci-aligned-scientist-who-peddled-covid-origins-propaganda-and-aided-censorship-of-lab-leak-theory/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.1108689941465855, "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"}