Accountability in Emergency Situations: Investigating the Oversight of the Biden COVID-19 Vaccine Approval Process

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust will hold a hearing on Wednesday, June 26, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. ET. The hearing, titled “Follow the Science?: Oversight of the Biden Covid-19 Administrative State Response,” will focus on the Subcommittee’s findings regarding the Biden Administration’s actions in pressuring the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expedite the approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine and boosters by lowering agency standards.

Congress is set to examine whether there is a need for reforms in the administrative state to ensure accountability within agencies, especially in regards to vaccine approval processes. The witnesses scheduled to testify at the hearing include Dr. Philip Krause, a former Deputy Director of the FDA Office of Vaccines Research & Review, Aaron Siri, a vaccine litigation expert, Dr. Jordan Vaughn of Birmingham, Founder and President of the Microvascular Research Foundation, and Dr. Andrew Tobias Pavia of the University of Utah School of Medicine among others who will provide testimony based on their expertise and experiences related to oversight during pandemic response.

The approval of vaccines allowed for its mandate by Biden administration despite concerns about potential injuries among young healthy Americans which led Congress to examine this matter further.

During this hearing witnesses will discuss how scientific evidence was overlooked by bureaucrats in favor of political expediency resulting in harm that could have been avoided if proper protocols were followed.

It is important that Congress conduct thorough oversight to prevent such abuses from happening again in future emergency situations where lives are at stake.

Overall this hearing aims at bringing accountability in decision making process within administrative state and also ensures that scientific evidence is not politicized during crisis situations.