Kennedy appeared before a Senate committee for the second consecutive day regarding his nomination for secretary of health and human services.
In a fiery exchange with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) on Jan. 30, President Donald Trump’s Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. chastised the lawmaker for accepting money from pharmaceutical companies.
Sanders is the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) ranking member.
On Jan. 30, Kennedy answered questions from the panel after appearing before the Senate Committee on Finance for his first confirmation hearing on Jan. 29.
During the exchange, Sanders said that America’s health care system is “broken” due to “some of the reasons that Kennedy indicated,” which includes chronic disease and the life expectancy in the United States that is lower than countries “far poorer than we are.”
Sanders asked Kennedy if, as HHS…
