,,iii  #aafth ,,congress  #b;d ,session 
,s4 ,,res4 #eeb  ,,in ,,the ,,senate    
,,of ,,the ,,united ,,states  ,march    
#bd1 #bjbj,mr4 ,hawley 7for himself1    
,ms4 ,mc,sally1 ,mr4 ,cornyn1 and ,mr4  
,cotton7 submitted the following        
resolution2 which was referred to the   
,committee on ,foreign ,relations       
,,resolution  ,supporting an            
international investigation into the    
handling by the ,government of the      
,people's ,republic of ,china of        
,,covid-#ai and the impact of handling  
,,covid-#ai in that manner on the people
 of the ,united ,states and other       
nations4  ,whereas the novel coronavirus
 7referred to in this resolution as     
,,covid-#ai7 emerged in the ,people's   
,republic of ,china and began to spread 
as early as ,november #bjai2 ,whereas1  
by late ,december1 dozens of citizens of
 the ,people's ,republic of ,china had  
fallen victim to ,,covid-#ai2 ,whereas1 
on ,december #cj1 ,wuhan1 ,china health 
authorities identified1 interrogated1   

and reprimanded multiple doctors in     
response to their decisions to warn     
other ,chinese citizens of the danger   
posed by that new disease2 ,whereas1 on 
,january #a1 #bjbj1 the ,wuhan ,public  
,security ,bureau questioned #h ,chinese
 doctors who had posted information     
about ,,covid-#ai on ,we,chat2 ,whereas1
 on ,january #a1 the ,hubei provincial  
health commission ordered laboratories  
to stop testing for ,,covid-#ai and     
destroy samples of the same2 ,whereas1  
on ,january #b1 the ,wuhan ,institute of
 ,virology mapped the genome of         
,,covid-#ai in order to inform          
development of public health            
interventions and medical treatments for
 ,,covid-#ai1 but the ,government of the
 ,people's ,republic of ,china withheld 
genetic information on ,,covid-#ai until
 ,january #i2 ,whereas1 on ,january #aa1
 the ,wuhan municipal health commission 
insisted that there were no new cases of
 infection by ,,covid-#ai2 ,whereas1 on 
,january #ac1 the first ,,covid-#ai case

 outside of the ,people's ,republic of  
,china was announced in ,thailand2      
,whereas1 on ,january #ad1 the ,world   
,health ,organization announced that the
 ,government of the ,people's ,republic 
of ,china had seen no clear evidence of 
human-to-human transmission of the novel
 coronavirus2 ,whereas1 on ,january #bc1
 the ,government of the ,people's       
,republic of ,china began to implement  
quarantine measures to stem the spread  
of ,,covid-#ai at the same time as the  
disease had already begun to proliferate
 throughout the world2 ,whereas1 on     
,march #aa1 the ,world ,health          
,organization declared ,,covid-#ai a    
global pandemic1 with #aah1jjj persons  
infected and #d1bia dead in #aad        
different countries at the time of the  
announcement2 ,whereas the ,government  
of the ,people's ,republic of ,china has
 argued recently that ,,covid-#ai did   
not originate in the ,people's ,republic
 of ,china2 ,whereas the ,ministry of   
,foreign ,affairs of the ,people's      

,republic of ,china has alleged that the
 ,united ,states ,army may have         
delivered ,,covid-#ai to the city of    
,wuhan in the ,people's ,republic of    
,china2 ,whereas the ,ministry of       
,foreign ,affairs of the ,people's      
,republic of ,china has said1 8,china's 
endeavor to combating sic the epidemic  
has bought time for international       
preparedness02 and ,whereas a           
,university of ,southampton study found 
that earlier intervention by the        
,government of the ,people's ,republic  
of ,china could have 8significantly0    
limited the geographic spread of        
,,covid-#ai3 ,now1 therefore1 be it     
,that the ,senate-- 7#a7 condemns the   
decision by the ,government of the      
,people's ,republic of ,china to hide   
the emergence and spread of ,,covid-#ai 
within its borders during the initial   
weeks of the outbreak2  7#b7 assesses   
that the decision by the ,government of 
the ,people's ,republic of ,china to    
hide the emergence and spread of        

,,covid-#ai during that period almost   
certainly contributed to the rapid      
spread of that disease throughout the   
,indo-,pacific region1 ,europe1 and the 
rest of the world2  7#c7 finds that the 
,government of the ,people's ,republic  
of ,china should be held accountable for
 the impact1 of its decision to hide the
 emergence and spread of ,,covid-#ai1 on
 the lives and livelihoods of the people
 of the ,united ,states and other       
nations2  7#d7 calls for an             
international investigation led by      
public health officials from the ,united
 ,states and other affected nations to  
determine how the handling by the       
,government of the ,people's ,republic  
of ,china of the ,,covid-#ai outbreak   
prior to ,march #aa1 #bjbj1 contributed 
to the emergence of the ,,covid-#ai     
global pandemic2 and  7#e7 calls on the 
international community to-- 7,a7       
quantify the harm caused1 by the        
handling of the ,,covid-#ai outbreak by 
the ,government of the ,people's        

,republic of ,china1 to the health and  
economic well-being of the people of the
 ,united ,states and other nations2 and 
7,b7 design a mechanism for delivering  
compensation from the ,government of the
 ,people's ,republic of ,china to all   
affected nations for the harm caused by 
its decision to hide the emergence and  
spread of ,,covid-#ai during the initial
 weeks of the outbreak4