(29 Jan 2025)
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Washington DC – 29 January 2025
1. Cutaway of Senate Committee on Finance hearing on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to be Secretary of Health and Human Services
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Roger Marshall, (R) Kansas:
""What is your prescription to help make America healthy again? What is what’s your vision? What does that look like to you?
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee:
"Something is poisoning the American people. And we know that the primary culprit, our changing food supply, a switch to highly chemical intensive processed foods. We have 10,000 ingredients in our country and our foods. Europeans have only 400. If you buy at McDonald’s, French fries in our country, there’s 11 ingredients. My understanding. In Europe, there’s only three. If you buy Fruit Loops in our country, they’re loaded with food dyes. Yellow dye, red dye, blue dye and many other ingredients. The same company makes a the same product with different ingredients for Canada and Europe. And we don’t have good science on all of these things. And that is deliberate, a deliberate choice not to study the things that are truly making us sick, are not only contributing to chronic disease, to mortalities from infectious disease. We need to get a handle on as because if we don’t, it’s an existential threat. Our country is not going to be destroyed because we got a marginal tax rate wrong, or because we get one of these culture war issues we’ve been talking about today wrong. It’s going to be destroyed if we continue down this trajectory of chronic disease, we need to fix our food supply. And that’s the number one thing."
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Roger Marshall, (R) Kansas:
"Again, going back to the big picture here, 60% of Americans have a chronic disease. Mr. Kennedy, I believe for such a time as this that you’re not just one of 300 million people. I think that you are the person to lead HHS to make America healthy again, that God has a divine purpose for you. And I look forward to your confirmation and working with you to make America healthy again. Thank you sir."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Raphael Warnock, (D) Georgia:
"Mr. Kennedy, you have compared the CDC’s work to Nazi death camps. You’ve compared it to sexual abusers in the Catholic Church. You’ve also said that many of them belong…this is a direct quote. Many of them belong in jail. For me, those are disturbing characterizations, of the CDC workers, that I know who are trying to keep the American public safe every single day. And, as you are presenting us, the nominee for this position, I need to know, do you stand by those statements that you you made in the past, or do you retract those previous statements?"
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services nominee:
"Comparing the CDC to Nazi death camps. I was comparing the injury rate to our children to other atrocities, and I wouldn’t compare, of course, the CDC to Nazi death camps to any extent. And any statements that I made has been interpreted that way. Yeah. I don’t agree with that."
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Raphael Warnock, (D) Georgia:
"Last week, the White House gagged HHS and the CDC, preventing them from communicating all important public health information to anyone, including all of our allies, including our allies in the United States and global disease prevention. Can you just answer yes or no? Because I’m running out of time. Do you agree with that action?"
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11. SOUNDBITE (English) Sen. Raphael Warnock, (D) Georgia:
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