RFK Jr. set to face Bill Cassidy in back-to-back Senate hearings

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. heads to Capitol Hill on Wednesday on a potential collision course with the Republican who helped put him in the job: Sen. Bill Cassidy.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. heads to Capitol Hill on Wednesday on a potential collision course with the Republican who helped put him in the job: Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy.

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It will be Kennedy’s first appearance in nearly a year before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, which Cassidy chairs. The senator, who is up for reelection, cast the key vote to confirm Kennedy last year after securing a series of promises from Kennedy, including that he would preserve federal vaccine recommendations and regularly appear before the committee.

Kennedy has not kept those promises; Cassidy has limited his criticism of the health secretary to posts on social media and press statements.