Posted on 01/29/2025 5:53:03 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who was thought to be open to voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, now says the nominee is in serious trouble after his rocky confirmation hearing.
“I don’t think it went well for him today. I don’t think that was a good one,” he said after Kennedy sparred with Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee over his past statements and stance on vaccines.
Fetterman said after the bruising hearing that he thinks Kennedy’s nomination may be “moot.”
“It’s moot,” he said when asked if he’s still open to voting for Kennedy. “I’m not really sure how much support’s going to emerge after that.”
The Pennsylvania Democrat noted that he’s met with Kennedy twice already.
“I think we can all agree that was really a difficult performance,” he said. “I’m not sure he’ll even make it out of the committee.”
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), one of the Democrats who grilled Kennedy at his hearing Wednesday, asked him pointedly about his comments on a podcast that exposure to pesticides could be causing more children to identify as transgender.
Kennedy acknowledged under Bennet’s cross-examination that he “probably did say” that Lyme Disease was a militarily-engineered bioweapon.
Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), meanwhile, tried to pin down Kennedy on his past views and statements on vaccines in a combative back-and-forth.
“You have a history of trying to take vaccines away from people,” Wyden told him.
RFJ, Jr.’s nomination will be voted on by the Senate Finance Committee, but before that happens, he will appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for a second round of questioning Thursday.
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I hope he can make it.
I watched some and thought he did fine.
RFKJ will still get a floor vote if he doesn’t make it out of committee.
Thune needs to get his conference by the balls and take committees away from them PERIOD!! Pelosi didn’t put up with this BS Thune better grow some balls TONIGHT!!
Not supporting certain vaxxes is not taking them away from people, and also not supporting forcing vaxxes on people who decided not to take them.
“ I’m not sure he’ll even make it out of the committee.”
When would this happen. Or not happen?
Not good if true.
If he is not confirmed, bring in some vanilla...confirm him. Make rfk the special assistant
..with instructions to the secretary to do what his special assistant says, verbatim, else he/she will be fired the minute special assistant Kenedy let’s potus know he=she isn’t doing what rfk said. They can’t do anything about that.
In the end, the Big Pharma money will call the shots.
Hey people in PA melt Fettermans phone lines NOW Trump won the state this vaccine BS is just that BS!! Our kids in this country are being stabbed with vaccines that are completely unnecessary!! Polio Yes, smallpox Yes, other simple childhood diseases that don’t cause death NO WAY!!
Good point to bring up :)
>> Not supporting certain vaxxes is not taking them away from people
They already know that... they’re showboating liars that hate America. They can go FO
Anyone who opposes RFK Jr. in the US Senate is a ‘sex worker’ for the Pharma Industry.
You can’t hide behind any excuses about RFK Jr’s “performance” in the hearings or any other issues.
Senators opposing RFK Jr. assume the position for Pharma period.
Anyone who opposes RFK Jr. in the US Senate is a ‘sex worker’ for the Pharma Industry.
You can’t hide behind any excuses about RFK Jr’s “performance” in the hearings or any other issues.
Senators opposing RFK Jr. assume the position for Pharma period.
Lindsey Graham votes for every single Dem nominee. He even says a President is entitled to his picks. Then he pulls crap like this on Trump’s. Thune should strip his committee chairmanship. Guy is human garbage.
Once again and more to come the problem is not the dems per se, it is the RINOs/GOPe/uniparty that control the votes.
These numbers to politicians is astounding just bought and paid for corruption to hell with the health of Americans kids!!!
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