Senate Passes Hawley, Braun Bill for Biden Admin to Declassify Intel on Wuhan Lab

Senate Passes Hawley, Braun Bill for Biden Admin to Declassify Intel on Wuhan Lab
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) speaks to reporters in Washington on Oct. 22, 2020. Samuel Corum/Getty Images
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The U.S. Senate has unanimously passed a bill that seeks to require President Joe Biden’s administration declassify all intelligence relating to the origin of COVID-19, including information about what happened at the Wuhan laboratory at the start of the pandemic.

Republican Sens. Josh Hawley (Miss.) and Mike Braun (Ind.) submitted their proposal, known as the COVID-19 Origin Act of 2021, to require that the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) declassify to Americans U.S. intelligence on the alleged links between China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) and the origins of the CCP virus last month. The bill was passed by unanimous consent.