{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/what-world-are-you-living-in-hawley-rebukes-former-nih-chief-for-claiming-zero-censorship-took-place-during-covid-peak/", "\u2018What World Are You Living In?\u2019: Hawley Rebukes Former NIH Chief For Claiming Zero Censorship Took Place During COVID Peak", "2024-07-11", "2024", "2024-07", "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.) questioned Carrie D. Wolinetz who served as Chief of Staff for former National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins during the peak of COVID-19.\n\nSenator Hawley pressed Wolinetz on her claim that censorship did not occur during her tenure at the NIH, specifically referring to questions around the origin of COVID-19.\n\n\u201cYou don\u2019t believe censorship took place? What world are you living in?\u201d Senator Hawley asked Wolinetz. \u201cTell that to the scientists who basically lost their credentials. Tell that to the people who were kicked off of social media and banned because they asked about a lab leak. . . . The privilege is astounding.\u201d\n\nSenator Hawley also called out Wolinetz and her team of so-called scientists formerly at the NIH for working to discredit the COVID-19 lab leak theory before even testing it as a hypothesis.\n\n\u201cWhy was your office so intent on pushing to the public the idea that this could not possibly have been a lab issue?\u201d he continued. \u201cIs it because of the NIH\u2019s role in funding gain-of-function research at the lab?\u201d\n\nLast month, Senator Hawley criticized professor and scientist Dr. Robert Garry for continuing to peddle propaganda about the origin of COVID-19.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:32:29Z"]], "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/what-world-are-you-living-in-hawley-rebukes-former-nih-chief-for-claiming-zero-censorship-took-place-during-covid-peak/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.660131849348545, "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"}