Washington, D.C. — Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet questioned U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on his actions undermining vaccine safety and access for American families. Bennet demanded answers on whether parents would continue to have access to lifesaving vaccines following Kennedy’s appointment of vaccine conspiracy theorists to the influential Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.
On potential changes to the Child and Adolescent Immunization Schedule, Bennet said:
“This is not a podcast. It is the American people’s health that’s on the line here. This is the last thing, by the way, our parents need when their kids are going back to school, is to have the kind of confusion and expense and scarcity that you’re creating as a result of your ideology. I think it’s critical for you to share the evidence that this panel will rely on. Will you give the American people six weeks in advance the record that they’re going to rely on to make these decisions? Will you make it transparent for the American people?”
Here’s what they’re saying:
Kennedy was pressed by Sen. Michael Bennet (D., Colo.) on the independence of the panel and possible changes to the childhood vaccine schedule. Kennedy said he didn’t “anticipate a change” to the MMR vaccine, which fights the measles, mumps and rubella and is required for school children across the country, but he was berated by Bennet, who said parents...
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