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On the recordFebruary 12, 2025
it is truly astounding that the Senate stands on the brink of confirming Mr. Kennedy to lead America's public health Agencies. If the Senate weren't gripped in this soon to be infamous period of total capitulation, I don't think this nominee would have made it as far as a hearing. If I told you a couple of years ago: There is a guy who has been nominated to run public health nationwide. His job will be to protect American families from death and disease. He is going to run the whole public health system--Medicare, Medicaid, the CDC, the NIH, all of it. He will decide how we protect the country from infectious disease. He will set the rules for every hospital in the country. He will decide what healthcare and medicines get covered by Medicare. He will manage our response in the event of a pandemic. And then I told you: Well, there are a few concerns about this nominee. First of all, zero relevant experience. He is a trial lawyer, a politician from a famous family, no medical or scientific background. He has never run a hospital or a health system or anything like that. Second of all, he has said some pretty wild stuff about public health over and over and over again, like, he proposed that COVID-19 might be ``ethnically targeted'' to spare Jews--``ethnically targeted'' to spare Jews. He said Lyme disease was a military bioweapon. For years, he has been persuading American families against routine childhood immunizations.…
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Jon Ossoff
Democratic · Georgia
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govinfo.gov
Feb 12, 2025

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