Signing Statement 2023-001

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Text of the Document from the White House website

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Statement by the President on S. 619, the COVID-⁠19 Origin Act of 2023 

BRIEFING ROOM  •  STATEMENTS AND RELEASES

Today, I am pleased to sign into law S. 619, the “COVID-19 Origin Act of 2023.”  I share the Congress’s goal of releasing as much information as possible about the origin of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID–19).  In 2021, I directed the Intelligence Community to use every tool at its disposal to investigate the origin of COVID-19, and that work is ongoing.  We need to get to the bottom of COVID-19’s origins to help ensure we can better prevent future pandemics.  My Administration will continue to review all classified information relating to COVID–19’s origins, including potential links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.  In implementing this legislation, my Administration will declassify and share as much of that information as possible, consistent with my constitutional authority to protect against the disclosure of information that would harm national security.     


JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR.

THE WHITE HOUSE,    
March 20, 2023.

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Text of the Affected Law

S. 619, the COVID-⁠19 Origin Act of 2023 has been designated as public law number 118-2.

The text of the law is available from Congress and the Government Printing Office (GPO), as follows:

1.  PDF downloaded from the GPO
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3.  Plain text from the GPO
4.  Enrolled text from Congress