Republicans on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress on Thursday after he pled the Fifth Amendment during a recent hearing. BREAKING: The Senate Homeland Security & Government Accountability committee just voted 8-7 to refer Dr. Anthony Fauci to DOJ for criminal contempt of Congress. That's the very definition of contempt for the American people,” Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) tweeted this week. 1/9 — My investigation uncovered that Anthony Fauci kept a diary. At the end of his opening statement before Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci invokes the Fifth Amendment.