特朗普总统提名的美国外科医生总长人选周三通过参议院关键委员会审查，为全院表决和确认铺平了道路。
President Trump's nominee for U.S. surgeon general advanced through a key Senate committee on Wednesday, setting up a glide path to a floor vote and confirmation.
参议院健康、教育、劳工和养老金（HELP）委员会按党派路线以12比11的票数投票推进妮可·萨菲尔的提名。
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee voted to advance Nicole Saphier along party lines, 12-11.
但由于这是11月前参议院开会的最后一周，她的全院表决要等到中期选举后才会安排。
But because this is the final week the Senate is in session before November, her floor vote won't be scheduled until after the midterm elections.
作为该投票的一部分，委员会还推进了两项卫生与公众服务部提名：提摩西·韦斯特莱克担任心理健康和物质使用助理部长，玛丽·拉扎尔担任老龄事务助理部长。萨菲尔是特朗普的第三位外科医生总长提名人。
As part of the vote, the committee also advanced two Department of Health and Human Services nominations: Timothy Westlake to be Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Use, and Mary Lazare to be Assistant Secretary for Aging. Saphier is Trump's third surgeon general nominee.
她是一名放射科医生、前福克斯新闻撰稿人，也是一位健康与养生影响者，在社交媒体上拥有数十万粉丝。
She is a radiologist and former Fox News contributor, and a health and wellness influencer who has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers on social media.
外科医生总长主要是一个传播职位，负责以公共卫生建议指导美国民众。如果获得确认，萨菲尔将成为该国实际上的首席健康发言人。
The surgeon general is primarily a messaging position, tasked with guiding the American people with public health advice. If confirmed, Saphier would become essentially the country's top health spokesperson.
在确认听证会上，萨菲尔被追问关于特朗普对儿童疫苗接种计划的更改，以及她是否会反驳特朗普和卫生部长小罗伯特·F·肯尼迪，两人都曾暗示自闭症与麻疹、腮腺炎和风疹（MMR）疫苗之间存在联系，这一立场早已被驳斥。
During her confirmation hearing, Saphier was pressed about Trump's changes to the childhood vaccine schedule, and whether she would push back on Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who have both suggested a link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine, a position that has long been debunked.
萨菲尔拒绝公开反驳肯尼迪，即使HELP委员会主席比尔·卡西迪（共和党，路易斯安那州）告诫她不要含糊其辞。
Saphier would not openly refute Kennedy, even as HELP Chair Bill Cassidy (R-La.) told her not to equivocate.
她说MMR疫苗"是我们对抗麻疹的最有力工具"，但当卡西迪问她家长是否应该给孩子接种MMR疫苗时，她拒绝给出是或否的回答。
She said the MMR vaccine "is our greatest tool for combatting measles" but wouldn't give a yes or no answer when Cassidy asked her if a parent should vaccinate their child with the MMR shot.