Dr. Anthony Fauci on Friday declined a request to appear voluntarily before a second Senate panel after majority Republicans on the Homeland Security Committee voted along partisan lines last week to hold the longtime infectious disease expert in contempt.

In a pointed letter to Sen. Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, a lawyer for the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said any effort to compel him to appear before a Senate subcommittee, after a contentious July 29 hearing, would be to "impermissibly harass or degrade Dr. Fauci for political purposes.”

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    14 days ago

    Its sad they think their ambush was any kind of gotcha for the Zell, they embarassed the shit out of themselves.

    I still jokingly ask if someone even said thank you when presented with a basic reasonable inquiry I cant answer or want to ironically/arbitrarily rebuff