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Bill Cassidy

18:04 - 18:20

“Someone said we haven't had to work on that for decades because no one has died from measles, and now we have people dying from measles. That's going to be a terrible legacy for this administration.”
Speaker
Bill Cassidy
Timestamp
18:04 – 18:20
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

From the transcript

Someone said we haven't had to work on that for decades because no one has died from measles, and now we have people dying from measles. That's going to be a terrible legacy for this administration. When I practiced medicine in Baton Rouge, I treated patients suffering from vaccine-preventable diseases.

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