Articles Tagged with ''Robert F. Kennedy Jr.''

President Donald Trump's nominee to head FDA hasn't attracted nearly the attention that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has, but members of Congress and individuals in the Make America Healthy Again movement say Martin Makary and RFK Jr. are fully in line. 

As the new Secretary for the Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has set his sights on studying and potentially reducing the number of chemicals in the U.S. food supply. 

“Nothing is going to be off limits” in Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s quest to address chronic disease, the new leader at the Department of Health and Human Services told the agency Tuesday. Meanwhile, Jim Jones has stepped down has head of FDA's human foods program, citing "indiscriminate" staff cuts. 

The Senate has confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and Brooke Rollins as secretary of agriculture.

House Republicans try to agree on a grand plan for enacting President Donald Trump’s tax and spending plans this week, while the Senate GOP is opting for a Plan B, a smaller budget plan that leaves more the costliest issues for later. The Senate is set to consider Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination to be secretary of health and human services, and Brooke Rollins' nomination to be secretary of agriculture.

The Senate Agriculture Committee hears today from representatives from major agricultural sectors on the health of the farm economy. The hearing, which will feature almost a dozen witnesses, comes as farmers grapple with multiple economic threats.

With the help of farm-state senators, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. used his confirmation hearings to paint himself as a champion of agriculture, arguing that many producers support efforts to roll back chemical use and shift to regenerative farming.

Today is a critical day for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and hopes for the Make America Healthy Again movement. The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on Kennedy’s nomination Tuesday. But a key Republican committee member, Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, wouldn’t tell reporters Monday how he was planning to vote, saying only that he and Kennedy had a “cordial” conversation over the weekend.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told senators Thursday he would support the development and distribution of avian flu vaccines for people if confirmed as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. But he later qualified that commitment by saying he would not back a specific vaccine before examining the science. 

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he wants to work closely with prospective Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to help farmers transition to regenerative agricultural techniques, including the use of less chemical-intensive practices that he said are destroying the soil and making people sick.