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Bill Cassidy

51:47 - 52:24

“There's a little bit of wiggle room there, and I'm so sensitive to this because I've had wiggle room from people sitting there, as Senator Baldwin said, who later use that wiggle room to do things which are quite contrary”
Speaker
Bill Cassidy
Timestamp
51:47 – 52:24
Transcript
Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (Murkowski): Hearings to examine the nominations of Gerard Klomp, of Utah, to be Deputy Secretary, Timothy Westlake, of Wisconsin, to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, and Nicole Saphier, of New Jersey, to be Medical Director in the Regular Corps of the Public Health Service, and to be Surgeon General of the Public Health Service, of the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Alaska News
Captured at
September 16, 2026

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There's a little bit of wiggle room there, and I'm so sensitive to this because I've had wiggle room from people sitting there, as Senator Baldwin said, who later use that wiggle room to do things which are quite contrary Okay. Do you— I assume you've reviewed the literature. Would you feel comfortable communicating with clarity? Because when you spoke about the COVID vaccine and the need for clarity, not that, oh, but no clarity. Are you up to saying to the American people, well, let me ask you, is the MMR vaccine extremely lethal, as the president said?

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