Cassidy is expected to challenge RFK Jr. on his vaccine skepticism and views on public health in today's confirmation hearing.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R), a physician-turned-politician from deep-red Louisiana, has emerged as a central figure in the confirmation fight over Robert F. Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and

WASHINGTON — Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy asked Thursday that health chief nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. put aside his decades-old questioning of vaccinations and promote immunizations should he be con

Sanders, the senior minority party member on the committee, pressed Kennedy to concede that health care was a human right, as his father, Robert F. Kennedy, and his uncles, John F. Kennedy and Edward Kennedy, had done. Kennedy again did not give a definitive answer.

Senator Bill Cassidy is considered a key vote in determining whether Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will be confirmed as the top health official under the Donald Trump administration.

Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy said the paperwork to schedule a hearing for Trump nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could arrive as soon as Tuesday.

Here's when and where Robert F. Kennedy will get his first hearing as President Trump's nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services.

If approved, Kennedy will control a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for roughly half the country.

At times, the questioning at Thursday’s hearing also got intensely personal. Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-New Hampshire, criticized Kennedy for his belief in a link between autism and vaccines. She also shared her struggles as a mother who has spent decades wondering what caused her 36-year-old son's cerebral palsy.

Bill Cassidy, a fellow Republican from Louisiana — to support Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Landry posted on ...

The official purpose of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.'s marathon Senate confirmation hearings this week was for lawmakers to decide if Kennedy is fit to oversee 80,000 employees and a $1.8 trillion annual budget as secretary of Health and Human Services.