Former Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon speaks in The Villages, Fla., on May 31, 2012. Reporter President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC ...

Dr. Dave Weldon, a former Florida congressman and physician, is set to appear at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday for his nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Washington — The White House is withdrawing former Florida Rep. Dave Weldon's nomination to be the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a White House official confirmed ...

The White House withdrew President Donald Trump's nomination of former Republican congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon to serve as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

The White House has withdrawn its nominee to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in an abrupt move just hours before his confirmation hearing was scheduled to begin.

(CNN) — The White House withdrew its nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon to serve as the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two Trump administration officials familiar with ...

Dave Weldon said Thursday that Trump administration dropped his nomination to take over as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. File Photo by Roger L. Wollenberg/UPI ...

Former congressman Dr. Dave Weldon blames pharmaceutical industry lobbying for contributing to the withdrawal of his nomination as director of the CDC, as some Republicans may have voted against him.

NEW YORK (AP) — Dr. David Weldon had been out of the national spotlight for more than 15 years when he was nominated to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But many anti-vaccine ...

Does Weldon want to build up CDC or tear it down? At Thursday's hearing, Democrats are likely to press Weldon on his vaccine views and his plans for the agency under a health secretary who has ...

Just 12 hours before Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida, was supposed to appear before the Senate health committee at the Capitol, a White House staffer informed him his nomination had ...