The White House Thursday withdrew the nomination of former Republican Rep. David Weldon to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Weldon, a longtime vaccine skeptic, had been scheduled to appear before the Senate Health, Education, […]
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Former Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart, a Cuban immigrant from Miami who spent nearly two decades serving his south Florida congressional district and the brother of Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, died Monday. The cause was cancer, his son told the Miami Herald. He
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Former Rep. Jim Leach, an Iowa Republican who left Congress in 2007 and later spoke in support of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention, died Dec. 11. He was 82. Leach, a moderate former Princeton
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Former Rep. David L. Hobson, R-Ohio, who served nine terms before retiring after the 2008 elections, died Sunday, his family announced. He was 87. Hobson, who represented a swath of southwest Ohio that included Springfield, was first elected to Congress
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