Honorable Tim Murphy
United States Representative, Pennsylvania, Republican
Representative Murphy, of the Eighteenth District of Pennsylvania, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. He served in the Pennsylvania senate from 1997 to 2003. He is a member of the Energy and Commerce Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The following is from Chairman Murphy’s opening statement at an October 16, 2014, hearing before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on “Examining the U.S. Public Health Response to the Ebola Outbreak.” Today, the world is fighting the worst Ebola epidemic in history. CDC [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] and our…