Fox News Digital Digital confirmed that the White House is nominating Dave Weldon as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Weldon is expected to hold a confirmation hearing on Thursday.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension (Help) Committee announced it canceled the hearing in a statement Thursday morning. However, it confirmed that lawmakers will still vote on the nomination of Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr. Marty Makary, Commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
General view of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, September 30, 2014. (Reuters/Tami Chappell)
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“It’s obvious that there’s no vote in the Senate to be confirmed. It’s futile.” However, there’s no official reason for nomination at this time.
U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon, (C), R-FL, Rep. Brian Kerns (L), R-In and Dennis Kucinich (R), D-OH, spoke to reporters after passing the house on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on July 31, 2001. (Shawn thew/afp via Getty image)
Secretary HHS said we will make sure that anyone who wants a vaccine can receive one.
Weldon, a doctor, former Florida congressman, has made statements about vaccines in the past and is expected to be presented at a hearing. Welton said in a 2007 statement that there are “legal problems” about the potential link between vaccines and neurodevelopmental disorders in children, such as autism.
Additionally, during Congress, he introduced legislation with former Rep. Carolyn Maloney, which would ban mercury vaccination.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., then secretary nominee of HHS. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
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At the confirmation hearing of HHS Secretary RFK Jr., questions of suspicion of vaccines recurred. Democrats on the Senate Help Committee have repeatedly put forward Kennedy’s claims to link vaccines to autism.
They also asked him about his time as chairman and chief litigation lawyer, Child Health Defense, a nonprofit that advocated opposition to vaccines and sued the federal government several times.
Peter Doocy of Fox News and Paul Steinhauser of Fox News Digital contributed to the report.
