Tiffany’s Legislation Requiring Senate Approval of Any World Health Organization Treaty Passes Out of House Committee

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Tom Tiffany’s (WI-07) legislation – the No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act – passed out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. This legislation would require any convention or agreement resulting from the work of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) intergovernmental negotiating body to be deemed a treaty, thus requiring the advice and consent of a supermajority of the Senate.    

This comes after the WHO failed to finalize their pandemic global treaty during the World Health Assembly earlier this year, but WHO Director Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stated, “We will try everything — believing that anything is possible — and make this happen because the world still needs a pandemic treaty.”  

"Under no circumstances should the Biden administration surrender our pandemic management to international bureaucrats at the World Health Organization and United Nations. The WHO has repeatedly shown that they cannot be trusted to carry out an effective pandemic response. Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee took an important step to protect American sovereignty,” said Congressman Tiffany.

59 Members of Congress cosponsored Rep. Tiffany’s No WHO Pandemic Preparedness Treaty Without Senate Approval Act. Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) has introduced identical legislation in the Senate and every Republican senator is a cosponsor. 

H.R. 1425 is also supported by the Center for Family and Human Rights, Eagle Forum, Family Research Council, Family Watch International, Heritage Action, Sovereignty Coalition, and Women’s Rights Without Frontiers. 

You can read more about H.R. 1425 here.

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