{"id":22475,"date":"2023-03-27T08:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-27T13:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/?p=22475&#038;preview=true&#038;preview_id=22475"},"modified":"2023-03-25T19:20:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T00:20:44","slug":"josh-hawley-bill-to-declassify-covid-origins-was-signed-by-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/politics\/government\/josh-hawley-bill-to-declassify-covid-origins-was-signed-by-biden-20230327","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hawley&#8217;s Bill To Declassify COVID Origins Was Signed By Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On Monday, March 20, 2023, President Biden signed Senator Josh Hawley&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2023-02\/COVID-19-Origin-Act-of-2023.pdf\"><em>COVID Origins Act of 2023<\/em><\/a> into law. After introducing the <em>COVID Origins Act of 2021<\/em> in 2021, which did not pass, Hawley and Senator Mike Braun got another piece of legislation through Congress and now through the president.<\/p>\n<h2>The Act<\/h2>\n<p>The legislation requires the Biden administration to declassify intelligence related to any potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origins of the Covid pandemic.<\/p>\n<h2>Hawley<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawley.senate.gov\/hawley-covid-origins-bill-signed-law\">In his press release<\/a>, Hawley said Americans deserved to know the origins and truth behind COVID.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The American deserve to know the truth behind the origins of the pandemic and we must begin the process of holding China accountable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h2>The Vote<\/h2>\n<p>The <em>COVID Origins Act of 2023 <\/em>was passed unanimously both in the House and the Senate. In the House, the vote was 419-0.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today President Biden finally signed my bill to declassify what the government knows about Covid origins. Let the people see for themselves! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wHjatKzWKe\">https:\/\/t.co\/wHjatKzWKe<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HawleyMO\/status\/1637934456194625538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, March 20, 2023, President Biden signed Senator Josh Hawley&#8217;s COVID Origins Act of 2023 into law.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20951,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[219,264,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22475"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22495,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22475\/revisions\/22495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altonmo.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}