You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. You're going to. Without objection Mr. Moore from Alabama will be permitted to participate in today's

hearing for the purpose of questioning the witness if a member yields him time for that

purpose. Good morning.

Today's hearing is being called pursuant to the subcommittee's oversight responsibilities regarding

regulatory reform and the administrative state.

Our concern is that in response to the COVID pandemic,

the administrative state, particularly leadership

at the Food and Drug Administration

and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention operated outside of their own rules,

regulations put in place to guard against such behavior in the face of a national health emergency.

Subcommittee oversight has found that in the wake of Operation Warp Speed, a federal effort

to speed up COVID vaccine development, there were reports of vaccine injury.

Further, the FDA and CDC had not studied whether people who had been

infected with COVID even needed a vaccine or whether the vaccine would quote

stop the spread end quote. When the Biden administration took over in January 20 the positive and negative effects of the vaccines were just beginning to be

understood there was immediate talk of mandating the vaccine and

developing vaccine boosters. Let's be clear, the mantra since the first days of

the COVID-19 pandemic was that the government would follow the science in all aspects of the pandemic response.

But the administration's objective from the beginning was to act with more urgency than caution.

Frightened Americans were working together to try to keep one another safe,

and they relied on the government's flawed advice on how best to do so.

Through Operation Warp Speed, the FDA brought emergency use authorization or EUA vaccines to market,

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