**Ebola Hearing Live Updates** Issa Calls New York Ebola Case 'Particularly Distressing': Rep Blake Farenthold (R-TX), noting that his wife is a nurse, says he's offended by the CDC "throwing the nurses under the bus."
12:08 pm - Rep. Trey Gowdy questions HHS Assistant Secretary on Ebola Czar
Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) grilled Health and Human Services Assistant Secretary Nicole Lurie during the hearing, questioning why President Obama would appoint a political operative to head up the government response to the Ebola crisis.
Gowdy questioned Lurie why she was not in charge of the response, citing her "vast and varied" background on medicine and communications.
"Why in the hell did the president pick a lawyer to be the Ebola czar and not you?" he asked, referring to OBama's selection of Ron Klain as an Ebola czar.
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