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  Sen. Boxer Seeks Answers On Redacted Testimony
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Last EditedArmyDem  Oct 25, 2007 07:37am
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News DateThursday, October 25, 2007 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionWhite House Cut Climate Warnings

By Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 25, 2007; Page A02

Bush administration officials acknowledged yesterday that they heavily edited testimony on global warming, delivered to Congress on Tuesday by the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, after the president's top science adviser and other officials questioned its scientific basis.

Senate Democrats say they want to investigate the circumstances involved in the editing of CDC Director Julie L. Gerberding's written testimony to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on "climate change and public health." Gerberding testimony shrank from 12 pages to six after it was reviewed by the Office of Management and Budget.

The OMB removed several sections of the testimony that detailed how global warming would affect Americans, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino, because John H. Marburger III, who directs the Office of Science and Technology Policy, and his staff questioned whether Gerberding's statements matched those released this year by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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