Posted on 10/29/2009 7:18:18 PM PDT by Libloather
Senate Confirms Surgeon General
By Kate Phillips
October 29, 2009, 8:46 pm
After much agitation earlier in the day, the Senate voted to confirm Dr. Regina Benjamin as the nation’s surgeon general on Thursday night amid a national emergency over the swine flu outbreak.
The Senate approved her on a voice vote. On Thursday morning, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada, had taken to the floor to complain that her nomination, along with others, had been held up. Republicans had stalled her confirmation over another issue, the so-called gag order imposed on insurance companies about whether they could inform Medicare beneficiaries about possible cuts to their benefits in the health care bills being negotiated in the House and Senate. The administration has since retreated on that issue.
With her nomination stalled, the Department of Health and Human Services had named Dr. Donald Weaver to be the acting surgeon general.
Dr. Benjamin is well known as the founder of the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Bayou La Batre, Ala., and for keeping that clinic running during two hurricanes.
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I hear they celebrated over at Homer Simpsons house with a dozen jelly donuts. Just kidding.
After putting a gag order on Insurance companies........
We are in soooo much trouble in this Country.
Where is Dr. Koop when we need him?
Having a FAT Surgeon General is like having a President who wasn’t born in the United States, or a Treasury Secretary who cheated on his taxes.
Our new surgeon general is SO fat, they confirmed her TWICE.
Czarina
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