U.S. House Republican Kevin Brady tests positive for COVID-19


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  • Wednesday, 06 Jan 2021

FILE PHOTO: U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Ranking Member Representative Kevin Brady (R-TX) sits for an onstage interview about the U.S. budget at the Peterson Foundation’s annual Fiscal Summit in Washington, U.S. June 11, 2019. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Kevin Brady, the top Republican on the House of Representatives tax-writing Ways and Means Committee, said on Tuesday that he had tested positive for coronavirus weeks after receiving a first dose of the Pfizer Inc COVID-19 vaccine.

Brady, 65, is the second House member to report testing positive for the virus this week. An aide to Representative Kay Granger, 77, the top Republican on the House Appropriations Committee, announced on Monday that the lawmaker had tested positive.

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