Troubled Vaccine Maker and Its Founder Gave $2 Million in Political Donations Emergent BioSolutions faces scrutiny in Congress for ruining Covid-19 vaccines and securing lucrative federal contracts. Executives will appear before some lawmakers who benefited from the company’s spending. Fuad El-Hibri, third from left, the founder and executive chairman of Emergent BioSolutions, shaking hands with Robert Ehrlich, then the governor of Maryland, at an Emergent site in Frederick, Md., in 2004.Credit...Grant L. Gursky May 18, 2021, 7:53 p.m. ET WASHINGTON — When Fuad El-Hibri, founder and executive chairman of Emergent BioSolutions, appears Wednesday before a House subcommittee to explain how the company’s Baltimore plant ruined millions of doses of coronavirus vaccine, he will be questioned by lawmakers he and his employees spent tens of thousands of dollars helping to elect.