{"id":607208,"date":"2021-07-30T17:35:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607208"},"modified":"2021-07-30T17:35:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T21:35:35","slug":"pelosis-office-silent-regarding-potential-vote-on-covid-origin-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pelosis-office-silent-regarding-potential-vote-on-covid-origin-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Pelosi\u2019s Office Silent Regarding Potential Vote On COVID Origin Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpelosis-office-silent-regarding-potential-vote-on-covid-origin-bill%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=607208&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office would not say whether the House planned to take up a bipartisan bill that would declassify any information regarding the origin of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, titled the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/117th-congress\/senate-bill\/1867\/text\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 Origin Act of 2021<\/a>, passed the Senate through unanimous consent in May. It would require the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to declassify within 90 days \u201cany and all information relating to the potential links between the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the origin of the coronavirus disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence deemed relevant would include any coronavirus-related work performed in the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/15\/inspector-general-national-institutes-health-ecohealth-wuhan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">institute\u2019s lab<\/a> and any information about researchers who became sick in the fall of 2019, including their names, symptoms and hospital visits. The findings would then be presented to Congress in an unclassified report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill establishes that we must identify the precise origins of COVID-19 because it is critical for preventing a similar pandemic in the future,\u201d Ohio Republican Rep. Brad Wenstrup said while speaking in support of the bill earlier this month.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7204087\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"33\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7204087\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7204087\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1210149339-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"TOPSHOT - An aerial view shows the P4 laboratory at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China&#039;s central Hubei province on April 17, 2020. - The P4 epidemiological laboratory was built in co-operation with French bio-industrial firm Institut Merieux and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The facility is among a handful of labs around the world cleared to handle Class 4 pathogens (P4) - dangerous viruses that pose a high risk of person-to-person transmission. (Photo by Hector RETAMAL \/ AFP) (Photo by HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1210149339-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1210149339-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1210149339-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1210149339-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1210149339-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1210149339-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7204087\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Wuhan Institute of Virology in Wuhan in China\u2019s central Hubei province. (HECTOR RETAMAL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden has also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/joe-biden-intelligence-agencies-covid-19-origin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">called on the U.S. intelligence community<\/a> to \u201credouble their efforts,\u201d in order to find the virus\u2019 true origin. His remarks came as additional evidence showed that the virus may have come from a lab instead of evolving in nature. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/27\/white-house-china-deliberate-theory-covid-19-lab-leak-coronavirus-karine-jean-pierre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House: \u2018We Haven\u2019t Ruled Anything Out\u2019 Regarding Possible Lab Leak)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Though the Senate passed the bill, it has not yet been brought to the House floor. Representatives are scheduled to begin their August recess after this weekend, meaning that the bill may not come up for a vote until after Labor Day, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans tried to force the House to consider the bill earlier this month, but their motion to do so was rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bill is about accountability for the Americans who want to know \u2014 who deserve to know \u2014 what caused this horrible scourge that took the lives of so many of our families and loved ones, that destroyed our businesses and livelihood, that robbed them of a year of their lives,\u201d Wenstrup said at the time. \u201cActually, the whole world wants to know.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Spokespersons in Pelosi\u2019s office did not respond to repeated questions asking whether the bill had a chance of being voted on entirely, and approximately when that would be.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi\u2019s office would not say whether the House planned to take up a bipartisan bill that would declassify any information regarding the origin of COVID-19.The bill, titled &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}