Democratic Senator Maggie Hassan fought back tears as she confronted Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his unwillingness to completely disavow past statements pushing the scientifically-refuted claim that vaccines cause autism—making a striking personal revelation in the process.

The data is there,” GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy bluntly told the nominee for secretary of health and human services.

Senate Republicans are such cowards. Every one of them knows that RFK Jr is a quack, a lifelong predator/abuser of people, an anti-vax conspiracist, and just a really bad person. They all know that. But [because] they’re all cowards,

Bernie Sanders asked him if he believed that the COVID-19 vaccine was successful in saving millions of lives. "I don't know," Kennedy said. "We don't have a good surveillance system." In reality, both the U.

Senators pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his past vaccine and abortion remarks in the first of two days of hearings before senators vote on whether to confirm him as President Trump’s health secretary.

Mary Holland, head of Kennedy-founded Children's Health Defense, spoke to POLITICO after attending his confirmation hearing.

Watch live as RFK Jr. faces questions from senators in his confirmation hearing as President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead HHS, stumbled multiple times during his first Senate confirmation hearing when asked about Medicaid.