COUGH IT UP, NIH: That’s the message from five GOP senators, led by Rand Paul, to the National Institutes for Health (NIH), about every royalty payment made by an outside source to any agency official, researcher or scientist since 2009. Open the Books, the non-profit government watchdog that first exposed $350 million worth of such payments to NIHers, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, has posted $12 Trillion in government spending at all levels of government. Now that’s what I call government transparency!