Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) vowed on Nov. 1 to introduce legislation requiring “a full investigation of all U.S. funding of gain-of-function research in China,” and a ban on federal funding to a New York foundation that works closely with China’s Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV). “I want to see the Wuhan lab come clean, for EcoHealth Alliance to come clean, and if they don’t, then we’ll have to go for a subpoena,” Ernst told reporters in an afternoon news conference. “It seems like every week, we are learning more and more about not only the possible origins of the COVID-19 virus, but about our own government’s involvement in dangerous scientific experiments overseas, including at the now-infamous Wuhan Institute for Virology (WIV) in communist China,” Ernst said. “For years, the National Institutes for Health (NIH) was paying for research on deadly coronaviruses at the Wuhan lab through the EcoHealth Alliance. The …