In a Senate hearing, Senator Bernie Sanders pushed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. again on his past support for unsupported claims that vaccines caused autism.
Bernie Sanders angrily attacked RFK Jr. over the sale of baby clothes with anti-vaxxers slogans being sold by a children’s health group that Donald Trump’s pick for health chief founded. The Vermont senator showed lawmakers at Wednesday’s confirmation photos of two baby onesies with the words,
Sanders was Congress's second-largest recipient of pharmaceutical donations in 2016 yet received only individual donations during his 2020 presidential bid
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is one of the most famous of Trump’s nominees, and certainly one of the most contentious. But the first day of his confirmation hearing wasn’t oriented around the kinds of personally agonizing questioning that defined Pete Hegseth’s confirmation process.
During a heated exchange on Thursday, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) sparred with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over whether or not he took campaign contributions from big pharma. The two mixed words during Kennedy’s confirmation hearing to be President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump ’s nominee for Health and Human Services secretary, spent much of his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday downplaying his role in the anti-vaccine movement. But Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was unconvinced.
A clash between Bernie Sanders and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at his confirmation hearing for Secretary of Health and Human Services took an unexpected turn on Wednesday when the senator defined a "onesie" in a line of questioning about Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy appeared before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday as he seeks confirmation as the nation's health secretary.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will face the Senate Health Committee on Thursday morning for a second day of confirmation hearings, after testifying before the Senare Finance Committee on Wednesday.
Vermont Business Magazine Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pension (HELP), today delivered an opening statement at the committee’s hearing on the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Senator Bill Cassidy, a physician and key G.O.P. vote, joined Democrats in aggressively questioning Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick for health secretary. He did not say how he would vote.