Here we go again. The National Institutes of Health (NIH), part of Health and Human Services (HHS), is once again in the news. You’d think in this post-Covid world, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra would be doing his best to keep his head down and his agency from the public’s attention. Instead, thanks to the House of Representatives’ Committee on Energy and Commerce, the NIH and Becerra find themselves at the center of a controversy that includes the re-appointment of Dr. Anthony Fauci and a number of other NIH Directors and billions in federal biomedical grants.