Senate hearing urged on Pentagon vaccine effort

Defense News: Two Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee are calling on panel leaders to hold a hearing on the Defense Department’s response to COVID-19 and its the role in Operation Warp Speed, a White House-backed effort to create and distribute a vaccine to every American.

Sens. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Mazie Hirono, D-Hawaii, in a letter Friday to Chairman Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., and ranking member Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., asked them to have DoD officials to appear and answer questions about DoD’s pandemic response. Their push comes as National Public Radio has reported that Operation Warp Speed’s contracting through non-traditional “other-transaction authorities” is shielding it from public-disclosure rules.

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