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WASHINGTON (NewsNation) — The Senate Finance Committee volition ballot Tuesday connected whether to nonstop Robert F. Kennedy's information for caput of Health and Human Services to the floor.
Kennedy's confirmation faces uncertainty. Key senators to ticker see U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., a doc who pressed Kennedy implicit his views connected vaccines during confirmation hearings past week.
In the hearings, Cassidy repeatedly asked Kennedy whether helium would “reassure mothers unequivocally and without qualification” that the measles and hepatitis B vaccines bash not origin autism.
Kennedy did not straight reply the question and alternatively replied, "If the information is there, I volition perfectly bash that."
Multiple studies by health organizations and aesculapian experts have debunked claims about a transportation betwixt autism and vaccines. Cassidy told Kennedy his past remarks "undermining assurance successful vaccines with unfounded oregon misleading arguments" concerns him.
On Monday evening, Cassidy said helium had “very cordial” conversations with Kennedy implicit the play but was “still moving through" the vote.
Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky are besides seen arsenic imaginable "no" votes due to the fact that they voted against President Donald Trump's defense caput nominee and person expressed concerns astir Kennedy's anti-vaccine work.
While Kennedy has sparked concerns astir his grounds of spreading misinformation regarding vaccines, helium has tried to downplay his past remarks and work, asserting helium is not anti-vaccine and promising not to “take away” shots if confirmed.
Kennedy needs enactment from each but 3 Republicans if Democrats reason him.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
