Susan Monarez, President Donald Trump’s candidate as director of the centers for disease control and prevention, testifies to the Senate Committee for Health, Education, Labor, Labor and Pension in the Senate of the Senate of Dirksen (photo of Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images) in Washington, DC (Photo by Kayla) Bartkowski/Getty/Getty Images))
Washington’s candidate of President Donald Trump to conduct the centers for the control and prevention of diseases, took off a party from a Senate committee on Wednesday and took its step closer to the confirmation.
The nomination of Susan Monarez now goes to the
The majority leader of the Senate, John Thune, Rs.d., will be responsible for planning this vote. However, if it will not be held in the next few weeks, Monarez must wait until the chamber after the August break.
The chairman Bill Cassidy, R-La., He said during the Markup committee of the health, educational, work and pension committee, which he believes that Monarez is a powerful candidate for the CDC director and hopes to lend a hand to bring the country’s ongoing measles outbreak under control.
“The United States need a CDC director who makes calmed decisions in science, a guide who will reform the agency and work on restoring the public’s trust in health institutions,” said Cassidy. “With decades of experience as a civil servant in public health, Dr. Monarez is ready to face this challenge.”
Sanders criticizes Monarez for vaccine security
Every republican senator of the committee, including Susan Collins by Maine and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska, voted for the nomination of Monarez.
Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders, a member of the committee, leaned the progress of Monarez together with the Democrats in the committee.
Sanders argued that in Monarez, as deputy director of the CDC, she did not do enough to counter Robert F. Kennedy Jr., especially with regard to the safety of vaccines.
“Today, the United States will report the highest number of measles cases in 33 years,” said Sanders. “In my opinion, we need a CDC director who defend science, protect the dangerous conspiracy theories of public health and secretly Kennedy over the years of life about safe and effective vaccines that have saved.”
Second CDC election from Trump
Monarez say Before the Committee for Health, Education, Work and Pensions in June, a standard component of the confirmation process.
Trump card originally selected The former US representative of Florida, Dave Weldon, headed the CDC based in Atlanta shortly after he had secured the election in the Oval Office in November. But the white house Pull Weldon’s nomination In March he could not secure the votes required for the confirmation.
Later this month Trump announced his plans to name Monarez in A social media contribution.
“Dr. Monarez brings decades of experience in the advocacy of innovations, transparency and strong public health systems,” wrote Trump. “She has a doctoral thesis at the University of Wisconsin and Postdoktorand in microbiology and immunology at Stanford University School of Medicine.
“As an incredible mother and committed officials, Dr. Monarez understands how crucial it is to protect our children, our communities and our future. The Americans have lost confidence in the CDC due to political prejudices and catastrophic mismanagement. Murders’ murders, the accountability tests and the pathogens and the pathogens and the pathogens and the pathogens and the illness measurement that are accountable again.
