Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy struggled with RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine history, but supports his goal for a healthier American diet.

A Senate panel divided starkly along partisan lines voted on Tuesday to advance the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the controversial environmental lawyer turned public health critic, sending his bid to oversee the $1.

The Senate Finance Committee this morning sent Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for health and human services secretary to the full Senate for a confirmation vote. In the afternoon, the Senate Intelligence Committee is scheduled to vote on Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to be director of national intelligence.

President Donald Trump’s pick to lead Health and Human Services faced tough questioning in hearings about vaccines, abortion and other major health-care issues.

Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) cast a key affirmative vote to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination for Secretary of Health and Human Services. CNN’s Manu Raju reports on Cassidy’s decisive vote.

The fate of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s bid to run HHS may rest with a Republican wrestling with his training as a physician and his instincts as a politician.

Kennedy won the support of Republicans on a Senate committee including Bill Cassidy, a medical doctor who had expressed scepticism.

The Senate Finance Committee voted along party lines Tuesday to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for health secretary to the full Senate, putting the longtime anti-vaccine activist a step closer to becoming the country's top public health official.