They are well within the mainstream of Democratic opinion, and most of them are popular in the country at large. So, on Thursday, Aqua Buddha got the kangaroo suits together and passed a resolution citing Fauci for contempt of Congress. Paul sent the referral after the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which he chairs, approved a contempt resolution on a party-line vote with Republicans in ‌favor and Democrats opposed. He described a full Senate vote as unnecessary. Stanley Brand, a lawyer specializing in congressional investigations, said Paul’s decision to bypass a full Senate vote could render his referral “null and void.”