Sen. Bill Cassidy is finding himself in a political quandary after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. this week replaced all members of an advisory board on immunizations.
The Louisiana Republican, also a medical doctor, had hesitated earlier this year as chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee over confirming Kennedy, but said that he had secured promises from him not to hinder the public’s confidence in vaccines, reports The Hill.
He also promised in February, after voting to advance the nomination, to “rebuff any attempts to remove the public’s access to lifesaving vaccines without ironclad, causational scientific evidence that can be defended before the mainstream scientific community and before Congress.”
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