{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/5/psi-chairman-johnson-to-secretary-kennedy-hhs-must-speed-up-production-of-relevant-records-on-covid-19-vaccines", "PSI Chairman Johnson to Secretary Kennedy: HHS Must Speed Up Production of Relevant Records on COVID-19 Vaccines", "2026-05-12", "2026", "2026-05", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Yesterday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations (\u201cPSI\u201d or \u201cthe Subcommittee\u201d), sent Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (\u201cHHS\u201d), a letter calling for the immediate production of records relating to pediatric deaths following COVID-19 vaccination.\n\nIn response to Chairman Johnson\u2019s December 15, 2025 letter about an internal Food and Drug Administration (\u201cFDA\u201d) document acknowledging that the COVID-19 vaccines led to the death of at least 10 children, HHS produced another internal memorandum containing more information about pediatric deaths.\n\nThis December 5, 2025 FDA memorandum described 96 pediatric deaths following COVID-19 vaccination, some of which were labeled as \u201cpossibly\u201d or \u201cprobably\u201d related to the vaccine.\n\nGiven that HHS produced this document four months after Chairman Johnson\u2019s initial request, he called on Secretary Kennedy to immediately provide the Subcommittee with the remaining responsive records.\n\n\u201cWe must speed up the discovery process. As a result, I am requesting, at your earliest convenience, a meeting with you and the officials within HHS that can discuss how to make that happen,\u201d Chairman Johnson wrote.\n\n\u201cThe public deserves complete transparency about the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines. HHS must ensure that there is no delay in achieving that objective,\u201d Chairman Johnson concluded.\n\nThis recent letter to HHS follows a series of revelations uncovered by Chairman Johnson\u2019s Subcommittee relating to the Biden administration\u2019s failure to warn the public about the safety risks associated with the COVID-19 vaccines, including myocarditis and ischemic stroke. Nearly two weeks ago, Chairman Johnson held a hearing and issued an interim Majority staff report showing that Biden health officials knew their COVID-19 vaccine safety analytic system was insufficient and they refused to implement a superior, updated system that could better detect safety signals for vaccine adverse events.\n\nIn addition to uncovering the Biden administration\u2019s efforts to downplay and ignore serious COVID-19 vaccine adverse events, to date, Chairman Johnson has released over 5,000 pages of HHS records supporting the Subcommittee\u2019s findings.\n\nRead more about the chairman\u2019s letter in Catherine Herridge\u2019s reporting here.\n\nFull text of the letter to HHS can be found here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-05-13T06:12:22Z", "2026-05-13T06:13:52Z"]], "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.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/5/psi-chairman-johnson-to-secretary-kennedy-hhs-must-speed-up-production-of-relevant-records-on-covid-19-vaccines"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0542478412389755, "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"}