2026年8月6日 美国东部时间上午5:30 / 福克斯新闻
参议院国土安全委员会定于周四就是否将此事提交司法部进行投票
撰稿人：亚历克斯·米勒，福克斯新闻
肯塔基州联邦参议员、共和党人兰德·保罗表示，他已争取到足够票数，将前总统首席医疗顾问安东尼·福西博士以援引第五修正案为由认定其藐视国会，若投票成功，他计划立即将福西移交司法部。
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参议院共和党人正准备就福西上周拒绝出席参议院听证会一事采取直接后续行动，推动该举措的领导人保罗认为，自己已掌握足够票数促成此事。
肯塔基州联邦参议员兰德·保罗及其领导的国土安全与政府事务委员会将于周四上午就是否认定福西藐视国会作出裁决——福西此前已收到国会作证传票，但拒绝回答议员们的提问，转而援引第五修正案。
“我认为我们非常有可能在投票中获胜，”保罗告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。
兰德·保罗寻求以藐视国会罪起诉福西，此前福西援引第五修正案超百次
安东尼·福西拒绝在参议院委员会听证会上就其在美国应对新冠疫情中的角色作证，并援引了第五修正案权利。（亚历克斯·弗罗布莱夫斯基/法新社 via 盖蒂图片社，阿尔·德拉博/彭博社 via 盖蒂图片社）
若投票成功，保罗希望迅速让司法部介入此事。
“下一步将是我们直接将相关提案提交给司法部，”他说。
保罗于周二公布了藐视国会决议案，其中规定，一旦委员会报告该决议，将被送交哥伦比亚特区联邦检察官。
这位肯塔基州共和党议员多年来一直与福西持不同立场。福西此前担任美国国家过敏和传染病研究所（NIAID）所长，在新冠大流行期间在美国的防疫政策和信息发布方面发挥了重要作用。
【观看】兰德·保罗称美国人从未从福西口中听过这样一件事
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他指责福西理应入狱，并试图迫使福西承认新冠病毒源自中国武汉的实验室泄漏，这与据称在福西指导下开展的风险研究有关。
上周的听证会本应是两人之间的终极对决，也是保罗多年来反对福西运动的顶点。但当福西在律师建议下，在听证会上援引第五修正案超过100次后，听证会并未按计划进行。
“尽管出于对立法部门的尊重，以及我在律师建议下与国会合作数十年的记录，这样做令我感到痛心，但我将依据宪法第五修正案的权利，拒绝回答各位的问题，”福西说道。
福西听证会五大关键时刻：保罗驱逐律师，莫雷诺因藐视投票临近爆发情绪
这也是这位前总统首席医疗顾问在听证会上除援引宪法权利外，最后一次公开发言。
这一行为促使保罗推动针对福西的藐视国会指控投票，以迫使福西作证。这位议员还对福西援引第五修正案是否符合前总统乔·拜登在卸任前为其颁发的全面赦免提出质疑。
拜登为福西颁发了全面且无条件的赦免，涵盖2014年1月1日至2025年1月19日期间的所有行为。
前总统乔·拜登于2024年1月13日在华盛顿国务院发表关于外交政策的演讲。（苏珊·沃尔什/美联社照片）
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“我认为法院可能需要解决另一个法律问题，即总统赦免是否能为你提供完全的豁免权，”听证会结束时保罗说道。
当被要求详细说明福西赦免令背后的法律争议时，保罗拒绝进一步解释。“这是一个很好的法律讨论话题，我们在提交司法部的提案中会阐明这些法律观点，”保罗说。
亚历克斯·米勒是福克斯新闻数字频道撰稿人，负责报道美国参议院事务。
Rand Paul predicts Fauci contempt vote will pass, vows swift DOJ referral
August 6, 2026 5:30am EDT / Fox News
The Senate Homeland Security Committee is set to vote Thursday on whether to refer the matter to the DOJ
By Alex Miller, Fox News
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., believes that he has the votes to hold former chief medical advisor to the president, Dr. Anthony Fauci, in contempt for invoking the Fifth Amendment, and he plans to immediately refer him to the DOJ if successful.
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Senate Republicans are readying immediate ramifications for Dr. Anthony Fauci’s refusal to testify last week in the upper chamber, and the leader of the push believes the votes are there to pull it off.
Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and his Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs are slated to decide whether to hold Fauci in contempt of Congress for declining to answer lawmakers’ questions after being subpoenaed to testify, and, instead, invoking the Fifth Amendment on Thursday morning.
“I think there is a very good chance that we will win the vote,” Paul told Fox News Digital.
RAND PAUL SEEKS CONTEMPT CHARGES AFTER FAUCI INVOKES FIFTH AMENDMENT MORE THAN 100 TIMES
Anthony Fauci declined to testify in a Senate committee hearing on his role in the U.S. response to COVID-19, invoking his 5th Amendment rights.(Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty Images, Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
And if successful, Paul wants to get the Department of Justice (DOJ) involved swiftly.
“The next step will be when we send the referral over directly to the Department of Justice,” he said.
Paul unveiled the contempt resolution on Tuesday, which stipulated that once reported from committee, it would be sent to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia.
The Kentucky Republican has spent years challenging Fauci, who previously served as the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) director and played a major role in the country’s policy and messaging on COVID-19 during the pandemic.
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He’s charged that Fauci should be thrown in prison and sought to compel him to admit that the virus sprang from a lab leak in Wuhan, China, in connection to risky research allegedly funded under his direction.
Last week’s hearing was meant to be the ultimate battle between the two and the pinnacle of Paul’s yearslong crusade against Fauci. But that didn’t happen when Fauci, under advice from his lawyers, pleaded the Fifth Amendment well over 100 times during the hearing.
“Although it pains me to do so because of the respect I have for the legislative branch of government, and my decades-long record of cooperating with Congress under the advice of my attorneys, I will invoke my right under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution to refrain from answering your questions,” Fauci said.
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Those became the last words that the former chief medical advisor to the president uttered in the hearing beyond invoking his constitutional rights.
That prompted Paul to tee up a vote on contempt charges against him in a bid to compel Fauci to speak. The lawmaker also cast doubt on whether Fauci’s invocation of the Fifth Amendment comported with his sweeping pardon from former President Joe Biden on his way out of office.
Biden granted Fauci a full and unconditional pardon for all actions taken between Jan. 1, 2014, and Jan. 19, 2025.
Former President Joe Biden speaks about foreign policy during a speech at the State Department in Washington on Jan. 13, 2024.(Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
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“I think there’s another legal question that the courts may have to decide upon, and that is whether or not a presidential pardon offers you complete immunity,” Paul said as the hearing closed.
When asked to expand on the legal question looming over Fauci’s pardon, Paul declined. “It’s a good legal discussion, and we will make those legal points to DOJ in sending the referral over,” Paul said.
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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