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We were unable to process your request. Please try again later. If you continue to have this issue please contact customerservice@slackinc.com. Back to Healio Key takeaways: Members of the Senate HELP Committee postponed a vote on Erica Schwartz\u2019s nomination for CDC director. The vote was delayed due to \u201cattendance issues.\u201d The Senate\u2019s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee delayed a scheduled vote Thursday on the nomination of Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, to be the next CDC director. The vote was scheduled to occur off the Senate floor but was postponed because of \u201cattendance issues,\u201d according to the office of Republican HELP Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, MD, of Louisiana.
Members of the Senate\u2019s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee delayed a vote to approve the nomination of Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, as the next CDC director.
Republicans control the Senate and have a one-member majority on each committee. Politico reported that Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was absent due to a family emergency, which means at least one non-Republican would have had to vote in favor of Schwartz\u2019s nomination for it to advance to the full Senate. The delay suggests that did not happen. Ranking Member Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who said he was planning to vote against Schwartz\u2019s nomination, did not question her qualifications for the position but her willingness to prioritize public health over the potentially competing priorities of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. \u201cI was impressed by Dr. Schwartz\u2019s service to our country and her educational background,\u201d Sanders said in his opening statement. \u201cI will be voting against Dr. Schwartz because we need people in this country who are going to stand up and protect the American people, and I don\u2019t think you\u2019re going to see that right now with Secretary Kennedy in his position.\u201d After Schwartz\u2019s nomination hearing last week, Paul A. Offit, MD, told Healio he was worried about her responses to questions about vaccine policy. \u201cI had supported her initially,\u201d Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children\u2019s Hospital of Philadelphia, told Healio. \u201cIt was sad to see that she was trying to be political as an MD.\u201d Cassidy appeared skeptical of Schwartz\u2019s candidacy during the nomination hearing last week, but said speaking with Schwartz and her former colleagues afterward gave him the confidence to approve her nomination. \u201cAfter speaking with Dr. Schwartz again after the hearing, reviewing the transcript, and speaking with those who have served with her and know her well, I\u2019m confident that she knows what she is doing and will stand against those who do not,\u201d Cassidy said in his opening remarks Thursday. Schwartz served as deputy surgeon general during Trump\u2019s first presidential term. She spent 24 years as an occupational medicine physician in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and was the U.S. Coast Guard\u2019s chief medical officer and director of health, safety and work life from 2015 to 2019. Schwartz\u2019s nomination hearing took place alongside Sean Kaufman, MPH, who is the nominee to be Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response. The committee was also scheduled to vote on Kaufman\u2019s nomination Thursday but that vote was rescheduled to July 30. Ask a clinical question and tap into Healio AI’s knowledge base.
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