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WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND) issued the following statement today on the nomination of Xavier Becerra, the Attorney General of California and President Joe Biden’s choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS):
“Health care is too important to the American people for us to let someone so unqualified and extreme be put in charge of it. Besides supporting partial-birth abortion, it appears the closest Mr. Becerra has come to working on health care issues is either suing Little Sisters of the Poor to overrule their religious objections and force them to provide contraceptives, or advocating for a government takeover of health care that would bankrupt the nation, eliminate the plans of millions of Americans, and ruin the industry as we know it. He is a terrible, unserious choice by President Biden, and preventing someone as ill-prepared as he is from taking the job is a prime example of why the Senate’s advise and consent role is so important. I urge my colleagues to join me in opposing his nomination.”