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Sep 12 2020
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Trump-Appointed HHS Officials Demand Right to Change CDC Info
Communications aides Health and Human Services are insisting on reviewing and revising any of the weekly scientific reports released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to the coronavirus pandemic, according to emails reviewed by Politico.
HHS communications aides reportedly sent emails complaining to CDC Director Robert Redfield and other senior officials that
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Sep 17 2021
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HHS announces new actions to 'bolster access' to abortions in Texas after restrictive law
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has announced a plan to make available new resources to "protect reproductive health" in the face of the new Texas abortion law.
President Biden has strongly and publicly opposed SB 8, a new Texas law that effectively limits abortions after six weeks from conception. In the wake of the law’s passage, Biden attempted to direct all
Fox News (Online News)
Dec 11 2013
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Sebelius Calls For Review Of HHS Practices That Led To Debacle
The launch of HealthCare.gov was flawed and simply unacceptable, says chief Kathleen Sebelius.
NPR (Online News)
Oct 31 2013
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Obamacare not for me, HHS head Kathleen Sebelius says
President Obama's top health care official apologized Wednesday for the broken Obamacare website and said it would take another month to fix but even as she defended the law as a good deal for most Americans she said there was no reason for her to have to purchase coverage from the exchanges.
Washington Times
Mar 18 2021
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Senate Confirms Xavier Becerra as HHS Secretary in Near Party-Line Vote
The Senate voted 50-49 along party lines to confirm Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services on Thursday.
Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) was the lone Republican to vote in favor of Becerra’s confirmation. Senator Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii) did not vote on Thursday.
Earlier this month, the Senate Finance Committee was tied 14-14 along party lines in its vote to
National Review
Mar 18 2021
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Senate Confirms Xavier Becerra as HHS Secretary in Near Party-Line Vote
The Senate voted 50-49 along party lines to confirm Xavier Becerra as Secretary of Health and Human Services on Thursday.
Senator Susan Collins (R., Maine) was the lone Republican to vote in favor of Becerra’s confirmation. Senator Mazie Hirono (D., Hawaii) did not vote on Thursday.
Earlier this month, the Senate Finance Committee was tied 14-14 along party lines in its vote to
National Review
Jun 23 2018
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Planned Parenthood sues HHS over abstinence-only programs
Several affiliates of Planned Parenthood sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday over its efforts to impose an abstinence-only focus on its Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program that has served more than 1 million young people.
Washington Times
Jan 19 2021
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Joe Biden Selects Pennsylvania Transgender Health Official Rachel Levine for HHS
President-elect Joe Biden announced Tuesday he had chosen Dr. Rachel Levine to serve as the assistant secretary of health for the Department of Health and Human Services.
Levine, born Richard Levine, is an openly transgender individual and would mark the first transgender official confirmed by the United States Senate, if approved.
Levine is currently the Secretary of Health for
Breitbart News
Jul 08 2021
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HHS chief says his vaccine comments are being taken ‘wildly out of context’
Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Thursday sought to clarify his argument that “it is absolutely the government’s business” to know which Americans have been vaccinated against the coronavirus, after facing backlash from Republicans in Congress.
In a tweet, the federal government’s top health official said his comments from earlier in the day had been “taken wildly
Politico
Dec 07 2020
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Joe Biden Picks California Attorney General Xavier Becerra To Be HHS Secretary
President-elect Joe Biden on Monday announced he’s nominating California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to lead the next administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, a surprise to many who believed the former Democratic congressman would be chosen to head the Justice Department.
The selection of Becerra — first reported by The New York Times and CNN on Sunday — is a
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