{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/2026/5/video-release-sen-johnson-holds-hearing-on-biden-health-officials-failure-to-detect-covid-19-vaccine-safety-signals", "***VIDEO RELEASE*** Sen. Johnson Holds Hearing on Biden Health Officials\u2019 Failure to Detect COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals", "2026-05-01", "2026", "2026-05", "Republican", "Senate", "WI", "Ron Johnson", "J000293", "www.ronjohnson.senate.gov", "ronjohnson", "https://www.ronjohnson.senate.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 On Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, held a hearing titled, \u201cUnmasked: How Biden Health Officials Purposely Turned a Blind Eye Toward COVID-19 Vaccine Safety Signals.\u201d\n\nIn conjunction with the hearing, the chairman released an interim Majority Staff Report, along with approximately 600 pages of records detailing how beginning in early 2021, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officials became aware of a new, \u201cstate of the art\u201d data mining method that could better detect statistically significant safety signals for adverse events associated with the COVID-19 vaccines. Rather than adopt the \u201cstate of the art\u201d method, Biden health officials continued to employ their older data mining method with known limitations that prevented FDA from detecting adverse events.\n\n\u201cPeter Marks, with the knowledge that he was treating vaccine injuries, and they weren\u2019t mild injuries. These were life-threatening injuries. These are total disability\u2013type of injuries. So, he knew it. He was treating them. He knew that his safety surveillance system was masking these signals .... They were pleading with the officials at FDA, NIH, that knew they were severely injured by the vaccine, counting on them to make that public, to study their results so that others could get treated. To this day, they have not done that,\u201d Sen. Johnson said.\n\n\u201cWe've got a real big problem in this country about vaccine-injury deniers. Again, these vaccine injuries are real, but it\u2019s being denied. And you know, Mr. Science himself, accused a lot of people of being science deniers. I\u2019ll accuse people of being vaccine-injury deniers,\u201d Sen. Johnson continued.\n\n\u201cNobody that pushed these things wants to admit they\u2019re wrong. The advice they gave might have resulted in somebody\u2019s death or permanent disability. That\u2019s what we\u2019re faced with. That\u2019s why we have this massive vaccine- and injection-injury denying going on in this country. And I can tell you, from my standpoint, I\u2019m not giving up \u2026 I\u2019m not caving to the ridicule and vilification,\u201d Sen. Johnson concluded.\n\nWatch the full video of the hearing here.\n\nThe interim PSI Majority Staff Report can be found here.\n\nThe records the senator released contain minimal redactions for personally identifiable information which was one of the categories of redactions requested by HHS. The records are linked below:\n\nPart 1\n\nPart 2\n\nPart 3\n\nExcel Documents\n\n###", 1, "2026-05-02T05:53:08Z", "2026-05-02T05:54:44Z"]], "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/video-release-sen-johnson-holds-hearing-on-biden-health-officials-failure-to-detect-covid-19-vaccine-safety-signals"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9064509067684412, "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"}