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Martin Makary shared misinformation about abortion pills at his Senate confirmation hearing.

On Tuesday night, the Senate 56 to 44 voted to confirm Martin Makary as Trump’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner.

Three Democrats—Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) —joined Republicans in the confirmation vote to appoint Makary, formerly a surgeon and professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, to lead the agency’s 18,000 employees and spearhead the regulation of products as vast and varied as food, cosmetics, and medical devices.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 27 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) 

#RESIST , Trump is literally Hitler, but we'll still vote to confirm his picks. The Democrats are fucking useless.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago

Dick Durbin, once again living up to his momma’s spite.

(Why else would you name a kid “dick”- or at least a name that was always associated with a prick? At least as far back as mid 1800’s. Granted, he might actually be that old.)

Durbin?????? What in the actual fuck.

[–] Botzo@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Hassan and Shaheen both seemed like abortion allies just 2 months ago.

New Hampshire must have changed their state motto when I wasn't looking. It used to be "live free or die."

And that Dick in Illinois? He seemed like he was on the good side too.