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.
Senator Maggie Hassan, while questioning President Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, disclosed that she is the mother of a 36-year-old man with cerebral palsy.
For Sen. Maggie Hassan, the falsehoods that have been spread about any link between vaccines and autism are beyond the pale—and hit close to home. The Democratic senator from New Hampshire on Thursday confronted one of the most influential disseminators of this conspiracy theory,
On Thursday, New Hampshire Democratic Sen. Maggie Hassan — a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee — had heard enough from Donald Trump’s controversial nominee to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, and her tearful but angry scolding of RFK Jr. brought the hearings to a poignant halt.
The second day of the tumultuous confirmation hearings for Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., became emotional on Thursday when New Hampshire Sen. Maggie Hassan brought up how autism vaccine studies had impacted her family and decried claims that concerns over his nomination were driven by partisan intent.
Maggie Hassan fought back tears at a hearing as she discussed her son's struggles with Cerebral palsy and Robert F. Kennedy's vaccine views.
Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH) at the second day of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearing: SEN. MAGGIE HASSAN (D-NH): I am the proud mother of a 36-year-old young man with severe cerebral palsy. And a day does not go by when I don't think about what did I do when I was pregnant with him that might've caused the hydrocephalus that has so impacted his life.
Senator Maggie Hassan pressed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his past support for abortion rights and accused him of abandoning his long-held views to secure his nomination as HHS secretary.
Robert F. Kennedy, President Trump’s nominee for health secretary, vigorously defended his views on vaccines, and a key senator still has clear doubts.
More dramatic questioning on vaccines in RFK Jr's second confirmation hearing. Bond/Simmons-Duffin/Stone/Webber
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s second confirmation hearing highlights vaccine skepticism, bipartisan concerns, and his plans as health secretary nominee.