Members of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions were just as surprised as everyone else to learn that the White House had pulled Dave Weldon’s nomination for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Walking into the HELP committee hearing room a few minutes before the hearing on Weldon’s nomination was supposed to begin, Sen. Tommy Tuberville told reporters he’d learned of Weldon’s fate “two minutes ago.”
“We don’t know anything. We’ll find out,” Tuberville said.