Cdc's Dangerous Turn on Vaccines

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Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, as a =========================== NOTE ===========================

On September 15, 2025, page H4301, in the third column, the following appeared: (Mr. LATTIMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. LATTIMER. Mr. Speaker, as a

The online version has been corrected to read: (Mr. LATIMER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, as a ========================= END NOTE ========================= parent and a grandparent and as a former county executive who led the COVID response in one of the first epicenters of that outbreak, I am concerned by recent developments at the CDC and the future of public

health.Decades of sound science and public health progress are being cast aside in favor of conspiracy theories and pseudoscience.

Last month, the CDC Director was dismissed after just weeks on the job. This week, the agency's vaccine advisory committee is considering changes that could weaken or even eliminate requirements for lifesaving childhood vaccines.

It is easy to forget the fear and devastation of measles and polio, not because these diseases are harmless but because vaccines have kept them at bay.

Today, parents worry about vaccine side effects largely because they have never seen the horrors these vaccines prevent. That doesn't make vaccines any less necessary.

The science is clear. Vaccines are safe, effective, and essential. Every major medical association agrees, yet fringe ideologies are gaining influence inside the very agencies charged with protecting our health.

Mr. Speaker, I fear our children and grandchildren will bear the cost of these reckless decisions.

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