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At last week's Novel Coronavirus Southwestern Intergovernmental Committee hearing, Congressman Eli Crane said that his top priorities while in Washington, D.C. include preserving Arizona’s medical sovereignty.  

“We have oversight investigations going on right now and legislation that we are working on trying to bring to the floor to make sure that not only the sovereignty of Arizonans stays intact, but also the medical sovereignty of everyone in this great nation stays intact,” he said.

The freshman representative was among the politicians who remotely addressed the committee during its May 26 hearing in Phoenix. The two-day hearing, co-chaired by state Rep. Steve Montenegro (R) and state Sen. Janae Shamp (R), was organized to investigate Arizona's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Crane began representing the 2nd Congressional District on Jan. 7. His constituents include 14 of Arizona's 22 federally recognized Native American tribes.

Within a month of being sworn into office, Crane voted in favor of The Freedom for Health Care Workers Act, which ended the national COVID-19 vaccine mandate for health care providers.

“I look forward to getting a summary and learning more of what came in this collective exercise,” Crane said in a video statement. “I really do appreciate what you all are about, and I hope that we can continue to work together at the state and federal level to make sure that our freedoms and our rights continue to be preserved.”

Other Congressmen who lectured remotely were Andy Biggs (R-AZ) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ). All three U.S. Representatives are members of the committee along with Montenegro and Shamp, who organized the local event.

“I wanted to apologize for not being able to be there with this great gathering of American patriots dedicated to preserving medical sovereignty in Arizona and even nationwide,” Crane added. “I can tell you that this is something we're very focused on up here in Washington, D.C.”

Crane is sponsoring the WHO Withdrawal Act along with Biggs. The WHO Withdrawal Act would require the president to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, which Crane characterized as a compromised institution that is blindly doing the bidding of its Communist masters while American taxpayers foot the bill. 

"As you saw in the last crisis, not only did they help the Chinese Communist Party cover up what they were doing but they were also giving recommendations that were antithetical to our health, our freedom, etc.," Crane said in a statement online.