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Trump's Health Secretary Alex Azar told bipartisan Lawmakers that he will have CDC and Prevention to research Gun violence for justifying Gun control

By: vietpressusa February 15, 2018
Photo by: Carolyn Kaster
FILE - In this Jan. 9, 2018, file photo, Alex Azar testifies during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. A Senate committee has signed off on Azar, President Donald Trump's pick for health secretary, clearing the way for final confirmation by the full Senate. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
VietPress USA (Feb. 15, 2018): After the deadliest shooting in American school history that killed 17 people yesterday at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, today Secretary Alex Azar of American Health Department claimed that more than two decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said federal law prohibits it from researching gun violence in any way that might be used to justify gun control measures.

He told the House Energy and Commerce Committee that now he will have CDC to work in this field as they do across the whole broad spectrum of disease control and prevention. 

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Trump administration stakes out bipartisan ground in gun debate

By Sally Persons and Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times - Updated: 8:32 p.m. on Thursday, February 15, 2018

The Trump administration’s health secretary said he is open to having the government study the roots of gun violence in the wake of the latest mass shooting at a high school, breaking with a long-held interpretation of federal law.
Secretary Alex Azar’s announcement Thursday appeared to stake out bipartisan ground in a debate that has grown frustratingly divided and calcified with each killing spree.
For more than two decades, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said federal law prohibits it from researching gun violence in any way that might be used to justify gun control measures.
Mr. Azar, though, said the law — which is renewed each year as part of a spending bill — “does not in any way impede our ability to conduct our research mission. It’s simply about advocacy.”
“We’re in the science business and the evidence-generating business, and so I will have our agency certainly be working in this field as they do across the whole broad spectrum of disease control and prevention,” he told the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
A day before his testimony, a gunman killed 17 students and adults and left 14 others wounded at a Florida high school.
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