Milwaukee City Wire

On June 5, 2025, the official record closed for the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ hearing titled “The Corruption of Science and Federal Health Agencies: How Health Officials Downplayed and Hid Myocarditis and Other Adverse Events Associated with the COVID-19 Vaccines.” Before the closure, witnesses invited by the Majority submitted hundreds of documents, including peer-reviewed studies and thousands of citations about adverse events linked to COVID-19 vaccines. These submissions were intended to support claims about potential health risks associated with the vaccines.

At a hearing held on May 21, 2025, Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) released an interim report from Majority staff and over 2,400 pages of records that described what they saw as failures by federal health officials to properly inform the public about myocarditis and related heart inflammation conditions following mRNA COVID-19 vaccination. The hearing included testimony from Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Jordan Vaughn, Dr. James Thorp, Dr. Joel Wallskog, and Mr. Aaron Siri.

During the hearing, Chairman Johnson told all witnesses: “Any of you who have cited some study or some opinion back it up, and we’ll include it in the hearing record. We’ll have this hearing record [] stay open for 15 days. So, I’m really encouraging people, send me that science.”

Johnson also addressed Hawaii Governor Josh Green, who appeared as a witness for the Minority: “I’m begging you, please provide the studies, the citations that prove that the injection actually reduced severity of symptoms, prevented deaths. Give us those studies, so we can throw those into the hearing record and compare them to other studies[.]” Governor Green replied: “It will not be difficult, Senator, there’s so many.”

Governor Green had already enclosed 33 pages in his written statement for the hearing. Afterward, he submitted an additional 19 links to studies and articles supporting his statements on vaccine safety and efficacy; however, these were provided one week after the official record had closed.

Chairman Johnson permitted Governor Green’s late submission to be added to the official record so that members of the public could review both sides—the evidence supporting vaccine safety as well as documentation regarding possible risks.

The documents submitted by Majority witnesses are available online at this link. Governor Green’s materials can be accessed here. A video showing Chairman Johnson requesting scientific citations is available here.

Ron Johnson has been elected multiple times to represent Wisconsin in the U.S. Senate; he won elections against Mandela Barnes in 2022 (50.4%–49.4%), Russ Feingold in 2016 (50.2%–46.8%), and again against Feingold in 2010 (51.9%–47%).