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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has better odds than ever of being confirmed by the U.S. Senate after Wednesday’s committee hearing, a chance for Democrats to grill the Trump nominee that they instead squandered on misguided questions about his past stances, one CNN commentator stated. A “big mistake” by Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee may have cost them the opportunity to block Kennedy’s nomination to head Health and Human Services, a sprawling bureaucracy responsible for approximately a quarter of all federal spending. Rather than highlight their areas of agreement, far-left progressive icons Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drove...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation hearings for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) have seen some of some of the harshest questioning of any of President Trump’s cabinet nominees by D.C. hardliners. One upside to the acrimony is that Kennedy’s harshest critics and defenders of the status quo are now being publicly revealed as the lawmakers to whom the pharmaceutical industry has donated the most money. A Midwestern Doctor @MidwesternDoc The hostility @RobertKennedyJr experienced at his hearing was directly proportional to how much Pharma money each Senator received. In fact, each of them simply repeated the same attacks we...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked into his confirmation hearing expecting a grilling. Instead, he gave a master class in Washington’s most predictable theater—politicians masquerading as public servants while performing for their real benefactors. That spectacle, courtesy of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, should dispel any remaining illusion that the progressive wing of the Democrat Party is anything but a reliable arm of the medical-industrial complex. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. carries a storied name in Democrat politics, but his break from the party’s establishment is now undeniable. Once part of the liberal political dynasty, he has charted a different course,...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: "And by the way, Bernie, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it's in Congress too. Almost all the members on this panel, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry." Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): "Oh no, no, no...I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives…They came from the workers."

Robert F Kennedy Jr and Sen Bernie Sanders had an explosive clash over the senator's links to Big Pharma as Trump's health nominee came out swinging in the second day of his confirmation hearing. The spat started when RFK Jr, who has been tapped to be head of the Health and Human Services (HHS), promised he would 'make America healthier than other countries in the world.' Sen Sanders questioned how RFK Jr could do so without guaranteeing free healthcare to every American, which appeared to set the nominee off. Referring to an earlier point in the hearing about corruption in...