Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Lankford, who pointedly disagreed with colleagues on the Fifth Amendment issue, waited until the hearing's end to recall that Congress went through a near-identical exercise in President Obama's second term. Lankford asked committee Chairman Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., whether the Lerner vote determined the Fauci outcome. Fauci made staff 'full-time application machine' for 'cash prizes'Fauci risked his Fifth Amendment argument by broadly challenging the allegations against him before clamming up Wednesday. "You turned your staff into a full-time application machine," with Fauci's chief of staff also pressuring ethics officials to greenlight Fauci receiving the money, Hawley said. He only departed from his rote recitation of his Fifth Amendment rights when asked about measles deaths from COVID lockdown.