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The Senate committees connected wellness and concern person announced the upcoming proceeding dates for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s bid to beryllium the adjacent caput of Health and Human Services.
The Health and Human Services (HHS) caput nominee volition enactment successful hearings with 2 committees, the Senate Committee connected Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) and the Senate Committee connected Finance. The archetypal proceeding volition hap adjacent week, connected Wednesday, successful beforehand of the Senate concern committee, which oversees HHS. The Senate's main committee covering issues tied to wellness and healthcare, the HELP committee, volition probe Kennedy the pursuing day, connected Thursday.
Kennedy's information could look opposition, even from Republicans. In particular, Kennedy's views and past statements astir vaccines person been scrutinized by some GOP and Democratic lawmakers. Additionally, GOP lawmakers person been acrophobic astir Kennedy's pro-abortion views that helium has espoused successful the past and his imaginable interaction connected the agriculture sector.
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In an interview with "Fox News Sunday" earlier this month, Louisiana GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, the apical lawmaker connected the Senate HELP committee, said Kennedy was "wrong" connected vaccinations. One illustration that has been raised was Kennedy's alleged efforts, which helium has denied, to beforehand doubts astir vaccine efficacy during a 2019 measles outbreak successful Samoa. Those efforts included a missive Kennedy sent to the country's premier minister, arsenic president of Children's Health Defense, suggesting that the measles vaccine could person perchance exacerbated the outbreak.
In the past, Kennedy has besides suggested that vaccines can beryllium linked to autism.
"The technological probe has been done and the results are wide – vaccines bash not origin autism," Autism Science Foundation President Alison Singer wrote successful a statement. Kennedy suggested to writer John Stossel that specified studies are "propaganda."
Kennedy's past pro-abortion views, and what helium mightiness bash to the agriculture assemblage successful his propulsion to instrumentality his "Make America Healthy Again" platform, person besides raised concerns for immoderate Republican members of the Senate.
"He’s made immoderate statements astir pigs and astir GMO maize and soybeans. I can’t judge that he’s going to person a occupation with that. But if helium does, helium has a occupation with me," Sen. Chuck Grassley, a subordinate of the Senate concern committee, told Semafor.
Following a gathering with blimpish Alabama GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville, a staunch pro-life lawmaker, the legislator said that Kennedy told him that helium agrees with Trump connected termination "100%" and volition person a airy interaction connected regulating farmers.
"We talked astir termination and the large happening astir abortion is he's telling everybody, 'Listen, immoderate president Trump [supports] I'm going backmost him, 100%,'" Tuberville told reporters pursuing his gathering with Kennedy.
Fox News Digital reached retired to Kennedy's representatives for remark but did not person a effect successful clip for publication.
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