Scalise: CDC Should Fire Whoever Blew Off Ebola Suggestions

House Majority Whip Steve Scalise wants more accountability at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the light of suggestions for better protocols being ignored and a nurse with Ebola being told she could board a commercial flight.

Scalise, appearing Thursday on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer," said that groups that have worked with Ebola patients in Africa for decades, including Doctors Without Borders and Samaritan's Purse, say the CDC's protocols are lax.

"One of the officials with Samaritan's Purse told the CDC that, and he said he was blown off," Scalise said. "We don't want a culture over there of taking this issue lightly."

If CDC Director Tom Frieden has employees who are blowing people off who make suggestions, "he ought to find out who they are and fire them," Scalise said.

The Louisiana Republican said he also is concerned by other lapses at the CDC, including reports that an CDC employee told a nurse who had treated Ebola patient Thomas Eric Duncan she could get on a plane even though she had a fever.

"Is he finding out who those people are at his agency? Are they taking their job seriously enough?" Scalise asked.

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