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Dr. Levine — Biden’s pick for assistant health secretary — to tell Congress she’s ‘ready for the job’ (Orwellian BARF)
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | February 24, 2021 | Daniel Moore

Posted on 02/25/2021 5:41:29 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

WASHINGTON — Former Pennsylvania health secretary Rachel Levine plans to tell lawmakers Thursday that her long and varied career in Pennsylvania — as a pediatrician, professor, public health advocate and, most recently, the state’s chief communicator during the COVID-19 pandemic — qualifies her to run key federal health programs as assistant secretary of health.

“At its core, my career has been about helping people live healthy lives,” Dr. Levine wrote in her opening statement, as prepared for delivery. “I am both humbled by the opportunity, and ready for the job.”

Of all her roles, Dr. Levine, tapped by President Joe Biden last month for the role in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, will likely face questions about her decisions guiding the Keystone State through an unprecedented public health crisis.

Republicans have renewed scrutiny into nursing home deaths after the state’s decision to allow people who had been hospitalized with COVID-19 to return to or enter long-term care facilities. The administration of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, a Democrat, also has endured GOP anger at statewide shutdown orders and a slower-than-expected COVID-19 vaccine rollout that lags behind other states.

Democrats on the committee, including Sen. Bob Casey, D-Pa., are likely to praise her as an effective leader whose tough decisions in the public spotlight make her an ideal candidate.

“She is exactly the kind of crisis-tested leader our nation needs,” Mr. Casey said in a statement coinciding with her nomination on Jan. 19.

If confirmed, Dr. Levine, 63, would be the first openly transgender official to be confirmed by the Senate. And she would assume her biggest job yet after five years working on intractable health problems from Harrisburg, navigating medical science, policy and politics.

(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: covid19; deaths; hhs; nomination; nursinghomes; pennsylvania; rachellevine; richardlevine
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

We should never put freaks of nature in positions of power, all they do is push their own personal sick and twisted lifestyle and beliefs on the good (normal) people of this country.


21 posted on 02/25/2021 6:02:41 AM PST by oil_dude
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To: laweeks
I don't get these Pennsylvania leaders.

First they have that deranged mutant, and then they replace her with this babe who looks quite hot even with a diaper on her face:


22 posted on 02/25/2021 6:02:44 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I just re-read 1984. In light of the current societal shifts it scared the feathers out of me. Everyone should read it and pass it to a neighbor.


23 posted on 02/25/2021 6:04:33 AM PST by ladylee (LadyLee)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Another big FU to the American people by our betters.


24 posted on 02/25/2021 6:05:10 AM PST by slouper (LWRC SPR 5.5 6)
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"Polls show the transgender ideology is deeply unpopular, especially among women and parents. In 2017, former President Barack Obama told NPR that his promotion of the transgender ideology made it easier for Donald Trump to win the presidency."

25 posted on 02/25/2021 6:08:07 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Eric Coomer of Dominion Voting Systems Is The Blue Dress)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I just re-read 1984. In light of the current societal shifts it scared the feathers out of me. Everyone should read it and pass it to a neighbor.


26 posted on 02/25/2021 6:10:22 AM PST by ladylee (LadyLee)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

If you don’t know what sex you are how can you be a doctor.


27 posted on 02/25/2021 6:11:05 AM PST by maddog55 ((the only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!))
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To: laweeks

Check out that receding hairline.


28 posted on 02/25/2021 6:12:43 AM PST by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: ladylee

“I just re-read 1984. In light of the current societal shifts it scared the feathers out of me. Everyone should read it and pass it to a neighbor.”

And also Animal Farm. There are 2 movies versions free on youtube. Unless they have been censored.


29 posted on 02/25/2021 6:15:21 AM PST by beef (Use a VPN, use Tor, and get a shortwave radio. Oh, and ACAB- All Commies Are Bastards)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Biden is picking that person for one reason and we all know it has nothing to do with being the best person for the job, just as we know Biden picked Harris not in spite of her being a woman but 90% because she is a woman and a “minority”.


30 posted on 02/25/2021 6:15:34 AM PST by Wuli
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This guy is utterly incompetent... forget the fact he’s mentally ill.

He was utterly in over his head in PA, but promote him anyway, because he checks a box.


31 posted on 02/25/2021 6:15:56 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Gender dysphoria aside, that alone makes him unqualified for the position.


32 posted on 02/25/2021 6:17:01 AM PST by CheneyClone
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

There is madness in the air.


33 posted on 02/25/2021 6:17:37 AM PST by kanawa ((Twitter quitter))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I just re-read 1984. In light of the current societal shifts it scared the feathers out of me. Everyone should read it and pass it to a neighbor.


34 posted on 02/25/2021 6:26:05 AM PST by ladylee (LadyLee)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

It’s a HE. Check it’s crotch.


35 posted on 02/25/2021 6:27:51 AM PST by RobertoinAL
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To: Alberta's Child

“they replace her” Why do people play along with the insanity. He is a man. That is a fact. If you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does it have? The only reason to call him a her is because you could lose your job. That reveals we are living under tyranny.


36 posted on 02/25/2021 6:28:18 AM PST by Vehmgericht (12)
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To: ladylee

Bought that and Animal Farm for my Grandkids


37 posted on 02/25/2021 6:41:16 AM PST by kanawa ((Twitter quitter))
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

All of it. Pretending to be “Rachel” does not make you “Rachel”. Also I find Richard much too formal. If only there were a nickname we could use for Richard that would be appropriate for this person, hmmmmm....


38 posted on 02/25/2021 6:42:31 AM PST by stremba
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
"At its core, my career has been about helping people live healthy lives" Dr. Levine wrote in her opening statement.

Oh Lord, how long...?

39 posted on 02/25/2021 6:42:47 AM PST by Gritty (Political opponents using the law as a weapon threaten the very foundation of our liberty-Pres Trump)
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To: laweeks

Follow the science, of course! Except for the science that deals with chromosomes determining gender; can’t follow THAT science.


40 posted on 02/25/2021 6:44:10 AM PST by stremba
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