Senate Appropriations Chair Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) announced a full committee hearing Nov. 6 in Washington on on the U.S. government response to the Ebola outbreak. The Senate hearing follows a similar probe last week by the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
On the House side, the Oversight Committee will hold a hearing Friday (Oct. 24), despite the congressional recess, examining whether the government is adequately training and equipping American health care workers and military personnel who treat patients infected with the deadly virus.
Mikulski's move to get the appropriations panel more directly involved in understanding the government-wide response comes shortly after Congress approved a spending package that includes devoting funds at the behest of the Obama administration to fighting the spread of Ebola, particularly in West Africa (see related document).
