Hawley alleged the Dan David Award carried a $900,000 cash prize and claimed Fauci used federal employees to help obtain it. Fauci again declined to answer, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination, something he did more than 100 times over the course of the hearing. In his opening remarks, Fauci accused Paul of having an "obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution." "He used federal employees with taxpayer money to apply for and solicit cash prizes. Fauci said he invoked the Fifth Amendment on the advice of his legal counsel, while acknowledging that doing so was difficult for him.