Democrat Himes Backs Republican Push to Declassify Intelligence on Origins of COVID

During testimony on March 7, the top Democrat in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence said that he would support a GOP-led measure that would require the Biden administration to declassify details about possible connections between the coronavirus pandemic and China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology.
In the House Rules Committee hearing, Rep. Jim Himes (D-Conn.) said of the COVID-19 Origin Act, “I plan to support this legislation, both in committee, where we will mark up a companion bill this evening and the full House later this week.”
“Determining the precise origins of a pandemic disease is challenging under the best of circumstances. But because COVID originated in China, the efforts to definitively determine its source have been even more difficult,” Himes said….}