WASHINGTON, May 26 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and seven colleagues to demand that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. allow expert scientists and physicians at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to speak freely, candidly, and "without political interference" about the hantavirus threat to the public.
"Let us be clear: we have complete confidence in the career experts at CDC who are, and have been, working to respond to this potential threat," wrote the senators. "What concerns us is the Administration's potential hamstringing of those experts' ability to convey scientifical...