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    Mikulski Sets Senate Ebola Hearing Two Days After Elections

    Mikulski Sets Senate Ebola Hearing Two Days After Elections

    By Humberto Sanchez Posted at 12:33 p.m. today


    Senate Appropriations Chairman Mikulski will hold a post-election Ebola hearing. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo)

    As the threat of the Ebola virus appears to be easing, Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Barbara A. Mikulski announced she would hold a hearing on the issue two days after voters are scheduled to go to the polls.

    The hearing is set for Thursday, Nov. 6 and would be the first in the Democratic-run Senate since the first U.S. case was discovered in Dallas.
    The hearing comes as California Republican Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced last week that he would hold a hearing Friday looking into the Obama administration’s handling of the health crisis.

    Issa’s hearing follows an Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hearing last week, in which Democrats sought to blame Republicans for budget cuts to medical research that might have helped curb the spread of Ebola in the United States.
    The GOP dismissed the criticism, citing the fact that none of the witnesses testifying, including leaders of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health, asked for more money.
    The hearing also became a forum for two Senate candidates who are currently House members. Both lawmakers, Republican Cory Gardner of Colorado and Democrat Bruce Braley of Iowa, took time off from the stump to return to the Capitol for the hearing.
    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., has urged House Republicans to return immediately to Washington to address the funding issue.
    The White House has also sought to blunt criticism by appointing former Vice President Biden chief of staff Ron Klain as their Ebola point person, or czar.
    The timing of Mikulski’s Senate hearing, coming two days after the midterms, may be may be designed to move the debate past some of the election-fueled partisanship that has erupted in the wake of the CDC’s fumbled Ebola response.
    Still, control of the Senate could still be hanging in the the balance: The elections of some Democrats on the spending panel may not be settled, including Sens. Mary L. Landrieu, D-La., and Mark Begich, D-Alaska.
    The Senate hearing also comes as Ebola, as a political issue, could be waning.
    More than 40 people who came into contact with Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan have been officially cleared after not showing any symptoms during a 21-day monitoring period, Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins said Monday, according to CNN.
    Nigeria has been declared free of Ebola and a Spanish nurse who had caught the virus while caring for infected patients has been declared free of the virus.

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    http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/ebola...enate-hearing/








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