Political Quotes

“I ask unanimous consent that a copy of my remarks at the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee hearing earlier this week be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: Reemergence of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases: Exploring the Public Health Successes and Challenges From smallpox to polio, we have learned in the United States that vaccines save lives. And yet a troubling number of parents are not vaccinating their children. Last September this committee held a hearing about the Ebola virus. Our witnesses included a brave physician, Dr. Kent Brantly, who worked in Liberia; and a brave father in Sierra Leone who came to warn us about how rapidly the virus was spreading. The number of people being infected with Ebola was doubling every three weeks, and many of those infected were dying--because for Ebola there was and is no cure, and there was and is no vaccine. This produced a near panic in the U.S.--it changed procedures in nearly every hospital and clinic. In response, Congress appropriated more than $5 billion to fight the spread of the virus. The impact of efforts to fight Ebola is that the number of Ebola cases is declining. At the same time, here in the U.S. we are now experiencing a large outbreak of a disease for which we do have a vaccine.…”