The COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023, specifically addressing the theory that COVID-19 leaked from lab in Wuhan, China, has passed the Senate unanimously. Senators Mike Braun (R-IN) and Josh Hawley (R-MO) reintroduced the bill after the Department of Energy (DOE) released a report concluding the recent pandemic originated from a biological lab breach. The FBI also reached a similar conclusion. Instead of passing by a conventional vote, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) made a request for unanimous consent for the bill which was granted “without objection.†The bill still needs to pass in the House of Representatives and would require Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines to declassify all information the U.S. government has on the most likely origins of COVID-19.
