At the U.S. Senate Finance Committee’s hearing today to consider the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) praised Mr. Kennedy’s commitment to ending the chronic disease epidemic and working with Congress to create a more effective, affordable and transparent health care system.
“Thank you for appearing before this Committee,” Crapo concluded at the end of the hearing. “You have been accessible to the members and staff on both sides of the aisle throughout a rigorous process, and I want the whole world to know that you spent hours in meetings answering questions outside of this hearing, and providing documents and responses on issue after issue. You have gone through the most thorough vetting process that any committee in this Congress puts anybody through, and I think that you have come through well and deserve to be confirmed.”
Kennedy’s nomination has raised serious questions among both houses of Congress and among physicians and medical experts who question his fitness for the office. A staunch anti-vaccine advocate, Kennedy was a known heroin addict with a taste for roadkill who onc