The Most Important Hearing In Washington This Week – For Some Of Us, At Least

18 Nov 2019

• By Michael McCaughan

Impeachment? That’s nothing compared to the chance to hear publicly from Stephen Hahn about what kind of US FDA Commissioner he might be.

Stephen Hahn of MD Anderson Cancer Center is expected to be nominated for FDA commissioner — US FDA commissioner nominee Stephen Hahn, an executive at MD Anderson Cancer Center, will testify before the Senate HELP committee on Wednesday.

November 20 promises to be a blockbuster date in the US House of Representatives’ impeachment hearings, with Ambassador Gordon Sondland scheduled to testify publicly about what President Trump did or did not do to encourage the Ukraine to investigate a political rival.

That will be at best the second most interesting hearing for anyone interested in the future of the US Food...