Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) opened a health committee hearing about leaders being pushed out of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention over vaccine policy with a call for the truth about how and why the first director confirmed by the Senate was forced out.

“We Republicans supported making the CDC director Senate confirmed,” he said Wednesday. “Part of our responsibility today is to ask ourselves if someone is fired 29 days after every Republican votes for her, the Senate confirms her, the Secretary said in her swearing-in that she has quote, unimpeachable scientific credentials, and the president called her an incredible mother and dedicated public servant. Like what happened? Did we fail? Was there something we should have done differently?”

Two former leaders of the nation’s top

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