Republicans on a Senate committee have voted to refer Dr. Anthony Fauci to the Department of Justice for contempt of Congress after he asserted his Fifth Amendment right to avoid answering the panel’s questions about the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted 8-7 on party lines Thursday to refer the charge against the infectious disease expert to Donald Trump’s administration, which will decide whether to prosecute the 85-year-old former National Institutes of Health official.
