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The official record for the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations’ hearing on COVID-19 vaccine adverse events closed on June 5, 2025. Before the closure, witnesses invited by Chairman Ron Johnson (R-WI) submitted hundreds of documents and thousands of citations related to potential adverse effects linked to COVID-19 vaccines. These materials were intended to support claims about health risks associated with the vaccines.

The May 21, 2025 hearing included testimony from Dr. Peter McCullough, Dr. Jordan Vaughn, Dr. James Thorp, Dr. Joel Wallskog, and Mr. Aaron Siri. Chairman Johnson released a Majority staff interim report and more than 2,400 pages of records outlining what he described as failures by federal health officials to adequately warn the public about myocarditis and heart inflammation after mRNA COVID-19 vaccination.

During the hearing, Chairman Johnson addressed 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.”

Chairman Johnson also asked Hawaii Governor Josh Green—who appeared as a Minority witness—to provide studies supporting claims that COVID-19 vaccines reduced severity of symptoms or prevented deaths: “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 included 33 pages in his written statement for the hearing and later submitted an additional 19 links to studies and articles supporting vaccine safety and efficacy one week after the official record closed.

Chairman Johnson accepted Governor Green’s late submission into the official record so it could be compared alongside other documentation presented during the hearing.

Documents provided by Majority witnesses are available at this link: here. Governor Green’s submission can be viewed at this link: here.

A video showing Chairman Johnson asking for citations is available at this link: here.

Ron Johnson has previously won U.S. Senate elections in Wisconsin against Mandela Barnes in 2022 (50.4% to 49.4%), Russ Feingold in 2016 (50.2% to 46.8%), and Russ Feingold again in 2010 (51.9% to 47%).