Stated position
Committed that, if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were confirmed as HHS Secretary, he would use his authority as Chairman of the Senate HELP Committee to rebuff any attempt to remove the public's access to vaccines absent ironclad, causational scientific evidence.
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Derived from a tracked promise: “Committed that, if Robert F. Kennedy Jr. were confirmed as HHS Secretary, he would use his authority as Chairman of the Senate HELP Committe…”
Sources
- Office of U.S. Senator Bill Cassidyhttps://www.cassidy.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/cassidy-delivers-floor-speech-in-support-of-rfk-jr-to-be-hhs-secretary/ ↗
“If Mr. Kennedy is confirmed, I will use my authority as Chairman of the Senate Committee with oversight of HHS to rebuff any attempts to remove the public's access to life-saving vaccines without ironclad, causational scientific evidence that can be defended before the mainstream scientific community and before Congress.”