The Senate Finance Committee held a hearing on Wednesday to consider the nomination of Xavier Becerra for the role of Health And Human Services Secretary in the Biden Administration.
Becerra sat before lawmakers on Tuesday, where his experience and past stances on controversial issues were called into question by Republican senators.
Conservatives have raised concerns about Becerra’s nomination given his lack of experience in the public health field. He has been serving as the U.S. Attorney General in California and previously served as a congressman.
Becerra has also come under fire for his role in overseeing, and defending, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s strict coronavirus regulations, some of which have been the subject of lawsuits.
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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra defended his previous efforts to increase access to chemical abortion drugs amid the coronavirus pandemic during his confirmation hearing to become Health and Human Services secretary on Tuesday. Senator Roger Marshall (R., Kansas), who is an OB/GYN, questioned Becerra’s support for “removing current safety regulations” that require people to obtain abortion drugs in-person. The senator said that while he had never prescribed RU-486 himself, he had cared for people suffering from its complications in the emergency room. In March, Becerra led a coalition of 21 attorneys general in asking the FDA to increase access to reproductive telehealth care, including lifting the in-person restriction on chemical abortion, the most common method of abortion in the first ten weeks of pregnancy. He asked for Becerra’s position on the issue, adding that he has concern for both the physical and emotional care of anyone who has taken