Washington – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took one step closer to Tuesday after a Senate committee had reported its nomination positively to the ground.
The 14-13 party votes of the Finance Committee does not necessarily guarantee that Kennedy will receive confirmation from the Senate, although, despite decades of distribution, it has the chance of the security of vaccines.
The Republican Senator of Louisiana, Bill Cassidy, who supported Kennedy in the Committee, said during a Floor speech on Tuesday that he had received hundreds of messages in person and thousands in his office, which has a sturdy support from some and the dismay of others about the Express the view of Kennedy’s confirmation.
“Mr. Kennedy’s most remarkable opponents were pediatricians on the front of our children’s health, who regularly have to fight misinformation,” said Cassidy. “You are aware that children now join in with diseases that they would not have associated if the child had been vaccinated.”
Cassidy, who worked as a doctor for decades before becoming a senator, said Kennedy and the Trump government assured him that they will protect the “advantage of vaccination public health”.
“Lord Kennedy and the administration have undertaken that he and I have an unprecedented close, collaborative work relationship if he is confirmed,” said Cassidy. “We will meet or speak several times a month.”
Promise from Kennedy
Cassidy said Kennedy and the Trump government had committed that Kennedy would have been confirmed if they were confirmed:
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Work within the current vaccine approval and security monitoring systems and no parallel systems set up;
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Maintaining the centers for disease control and prevention consultation committee for recommendations for immunization practices without changes;
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Keep statements on the CDC website that state vaccines do not cause autism.
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Provide termination with the Help Committee for at least 30 days if HHS wants to make changes to the federal monitoring programs for vaccines.
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Allow the chairman of the Help Committee to vote for a representative on an board of directors or a commission that was founded to review vaccine security. And
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Appointed in front of the Help Committee quarterly when he demands.
“If Mr. Kennedy is confirmed, I will use my authority of the Senate Committee with supervision over HHS to attempt to regain the public’s access to life -saving vaccines without iron -known causal scientific evidence that can be accepted and defended in front of the mainstream Scientific And before the congress, ”said Cassidy. “I will carefully observe on efforts to mistake public fear of vaccines between confusing references of chance and anecdote.”
Cassidy said that if Kennedy is confirmed by the full Senate as HHS secretary, Kennedy expects that overtaking.
“We also have to reform institutions such as FDA and NIH, and as already mentioned, this are my priorities as chairman of the Help Committee. I look forward to his support to achieve this, ”said Cassidy.
“Apparently unqualified”
The Democrats expressed their concerns how Kennedy’s confirmation would affect the country’s public health system shortly before the committee was correct.
The Democratic Senator of Georgia, Raphael Warnock, said that Kennedy was “for the job he is looking for”, “obviously unreservedly”.
“We need a serious person at the head of the HHS, an agency who is responsible for the health of half of all Americans,” said Warnock. “Lord Kennedy seems to be more obsessed with pursuing conspiracy theories than reducing solutions to reduce the health costs for working families in Georgia and to ensure that we are protected.
“The last thing we need is a dilettant who deals with conspiracy theories at HHS.”
“Go wild”
The Republican Senator of North Carolina, Thom Tillis, said he thinks Kennedy would be “wild” as HHS secretary.
“I hope he will be wild and actually find a way to reduce health care costs,” said Tillis. “I hope he will be wild and instead of having the discussions that we have had in the Senate for 10 years to make Medicaid to work and make people healthier on Medicaid, I hope that he will be wild and find out how it works because the status quo did not achieve much in the way to win.
“I hope he will be wild about discussions on food safety so that we can actually approved our food safety.”
Last updated at 12:48 p.m., February 4, 2025
