119-sres374

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[S. Res. 374 Introduced in Senate

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
S. RES. 374

 Expressing the sense of the Senate that Secretary of Health and Human 
Services Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. does not have the confidence of 
the Senate or of the American people to faithfully carry out the duties 
 of his office and should be removed from his position.

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 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

 September 4, 2025

Ms. Alsobrooks (for herself, Mr. Wyden, Mr. Schumer, Mr. Sanders, Mrs. 
 Murray, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Blunt Rochester, Ms. Cortez Masto, Ms. 
 Duckworth, Mr. Heinrich, Mr. Kaine, Mr. Kim, Mr. Markey, Mr. Padilla, 
 Mr. Reed, Ms. Rosen, Ms. Smith, Ms. Warren, Mr. Warner, Mr. Warnock, 
 Mr. Welch, Mr. Van Hollen, and Mr. Coons) submitted the following 
 resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Finance

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 RESOLUTION

 Expressing the sense of the Senate that Secretary of Health and Human 
Services Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. does not have the confidence of 
the Senate or of the American people to faithfully carry out the duties 
 of his office and should be removed from his position.

Whereas, while serving as the Secretary of Health and Human Services (referred 
 to in this preamble as the ``Secretary''), Robert Fitzgerald Kennedy 
 Jr., in violation of his constitutional oath, has engaged in a pattern 
 of conduct that is incompatible with his constitutional and statutory 
 duties as the Secretary, including by--

    (1) furthering his anti-science and anti-vaccine agenda by targeting, 
firing, and pushing out scientists and experts to install and empower 
unqualified anti-vaccine associates throughout the Department of Health and 
Human Services (referred to in this preamble as the ``Department''), 
specifically at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the 
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in order to promote policies 
that undermine access and trust in vaccines;

    (2) failing to meet his obligations under 

section 1701 of the Public 
Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300u), including the obligation to support 
``research and demonstrations respecting health information and health 
promotion, preventive health services, and education in the appropriate use 
of health care'' and to increase ``the application and use of health 
knowledge, skills, and practices by the general population in its patterns 
of daily living'';

    (3) failing to meet his obligations under sections 402 and 464z-3 of 
the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 282; 285t), wherein it is clear 
that the congressional intent of National Institutes of Health research is 
to support programs for research, research training, and recruitment that 
``provide for an increase in the number of women and individuals from 
disadvantaged backgrounds (including racial and ethnic minorities) in the 
fields of biomedical and behavioral research'' and to support research and 
training ``with respect to minority health conditions and other populations 
with health disparities'';

    (4) failing to meet his obligations under the many statutes that govern 
the programs of the Department and appropriate funding for the Department 
to administer such programs, in violation of Federal law and the 
Constitution of the United States, through his directed reduction in force 
and reorganization of Department functions, which was initiated with little 
regard to the impact of the reductions on congressionally mandated 
activities, the efficacy of government programs and services, or the very 
legality of the reductions; and

    (5) failing to meet his obligations under the Older Americans Act of 
1965 (42 U.S.C. 3001 et seq.), the Developmental Disabilities Assistance 
and Bill of Rights Act of 2000 (42 U.S.C. 15001 et seq.), and the 
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.), which together entrust 
the Secretary with ensuring both older Americans and individuals with 
disabilities are afforded the inherent dignity they are entitled to, 
including living where they choose with the ability to fully participate in 
their communities;

Whereas, under the direction of political leadership, the National Institutes of 
 Health has sent hundreds of letters to Federal grant recipients at 
 public research institutions announcing that various grants have been 
 terminated because they ``no longer effectuate agency priorities'', 
 resulting in delays and terminations that have caused direct, immediate, 
 significant, and irreparable harm to the States and to public research 
 institutions;
Whereas, on March 24, 2025, the Department abruptly and arbitrarily terminated 
 $11,000,000,000 of critical public health funding from States across the 
 country, jeopardizing disease surveillance programs, substance abuse 
 services, emergency preparedness initiatives, and funding to modernize 
 State programs for childhood immunization and access to vaccinations, 
 causing serious harm to public health and leaving States at risk for 
 pandemics and the spread of disease;
Whereas these terminations exceeded the Secretary's statutory authority and are 
 unlawful under subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of title 5, 
 United States Code (commonly known as the ``Administrative Procedure 
 Act'');
Whereas, in late February of 2025, the Secretary and the Director of the 
 National Institutes of Health launched a ``reckless and illegal purge'' 
 of hundreds of research projects because they allegedly had ``some 
 alleged connection to `gender identity' or diversity, equity, and 
 inclusion'', when in reality, this new mandate was used as a guise to 
 cut research from diverse researchers, diverse populations, or research 
 related to health disparities;
Whereas, according to court filings, this research included grants for 
 Alzheimer's research, research on disparities in pregnancy health, 
 violence prevention among children, and the efficacy of preventative HIV 
 medications, and as a result of these actions, ``scientific advancements 
 will be delayed, treatments will go undiscovered, human health with be 
 compromised, and lives will be lost'';
Whereas 2 days after being sworn in as the Secretary, 5,200 probationary workers 
 across multiple agencies of the Department received termination notices, 
 in which these workers were told that they were ``not fit for continued 
 employment because your ability, knowledge and skills do not fit the 
 Agency's current needs, and your performance has not been adequate to 
 justify further employment at the Agency'';
Whereas, on March 27, 2025, the Secretary announced that the Department would 
 begin to terminate an additional 10,000 employees as part of a broader 
 effort to push 20,000 Federal civil servants out of Federal health 
 agencies and consolidate divisions;
Whereas, on April 1, 2025, the termination notices began, with consequences that 
 were, according to litigation, ``severe, complicated, and potentially 
 irreversible'';
Whereas, on April 1, 2025, most of the staff from the 8 Offices of Minority 
 Health across the Department were eliminated at the Secretary's 
 direction as part of a Department-wide reorganization, including the 
 entire Office of Minority Health at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid 
 Services;
Whereas sections 1707 and 1707A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 
 300u-6; 300u-6a) mandate the existence of these offices and 

section 10334

    (b)

    (3) of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (42 U.S.C. 
 300u-6a note; Public Law 111-148) specifically prohibits the termination 
 or reorganization of these offices absent an Act of Congress;
Whereas the Secretary has undertaken mass firings at the Administration for 
 Children and Families, reducing the agency's staffing footprint by 35 to 
 40 percent, that endanger children and seniors and undermine the 
 provision of essential services like child care, Head Start, adoption 
 and foster care, and adult and child protective services;
Whereas the Secretary has initiated steps to reorganize the Administration for 
 Community Living, terminating half of the staff at the Department that 
 work on Federal aging and disability programs and causing real harm to 
 programs that support more than 11,000,000 seniors and 70,000,000 
 Americans with disabilities;
Whereas staff at numerous Freedom of Information Act offices at the Department 
 have been eliminated, eroding the American people's ability to 
 instrumentalize their right to government transparency and 
 accountability;
Whereas 23 States have initiated numerous lawsuits against both Robert F. 
 Kennedy Jr. in his official capacity as the Secretary of Health and 
 Human Services and the Department of Health and Human Services, 
 underscoring the illegality of the Secretary's actions, and the ways in 
 which both the Secretary and the Department are undermining public 
 health;
Whereas leading health research organizations and individual researchers have 
 filed a lawsuit against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his official capacity 
 as the Secretary of Health and Human Services for breaching his 
 statutory authority under subchapter II of chapter 5, and chapter 7, of 
 title 5, United States Code (commonly known as the ``Administrative 
 Procedure Act'') by acting contrary to congressional mandates requiring 
 the National Institutes of Health to promote health equity and address 
 health disparities;
Whereas 20 States filed a lawsuit against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in his official 
 capacity as the Secretary of Health and Human Services for his arbitrary 
 and capricious directive to conduct an abrupt reduction in force and 
 reorganization of the Department, which violates the Appropriations 
 Clause of 

section 9 of article I of the Constitution of the United 
 States and the constitutional doctrine of separation of powers;
Whereas the Secretary's illegal termination of National Institutes of Health 
 research grants and the subsequent termination of Federal employees 
 working at Federal health agencies, as well as the elimination of a 
 number of Centers of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and 
 Institutes of the National Institutes of Health will undermine efforts 
 to combat chronic disease;
Whereas the Secretary eliminated staff at the National Institute of Allergy and 
 Infectious Diseases, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders 
 and Stroke, the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and 
 Health Promotion, the National Center for HIV, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and 
 Tuberculosis Prevention, the National Institute for Occupational Safety 
 and Health, the National Center for Environmental Health, and the 
 National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, among 
 others;
Whereas these actions will stifle efforts to research, prevent, and treat 
 Americans living with Alzheimer's disease, diabetes, epilepsy, asthma, 
 blood disorders, and many other chronic conditions;
Whereas the Secretary himself admitted that these reductions in force were 
 flawed and mismanaged, leading him to rehire some staff that were 
 mistakenly fired, but still leaving many programs and agencies across 
 the Department crippled by the cuts;
Whereas under the direction of the Secretary, the NIH Clinical Center has paused 
 or delayed funding for months to hundreds of clinical trials, and 
 outright terminated hundreds more, and many of the terminated trials 
 focused on testing vaccines, combatting HIV and HPV, harm reduction 
 strategies to reduce SUDs, and violence and sexual assault prevention, 
 and others focused on diabetes, kidney transplants, brain health, sickle 
 cell treatments, and cochlear implants, and will thus have wide ranging 
 health implications for Americans;
Whereas, in March 2025, the Department rescinded a memo, referred to as the 
 ``Richardson Waiver,'' wherein the Department agreed to follow the 
 notice-and-comment rulemaking procedures in the Administrative Procedure 
 Act, thereby breaking with more than 5 decades of precedent that allowed 
 members of the public and external experts to make their voices heard 
 through public comments on everything from proposed rules, grants, 
 loans, and contracts to the structure of the agency itself, and this 
 action is in direct contradiction to the Secretary's stated commitment 
 to lead the Department through ``radical transparency,'' and enables the 
 Department to take actions without public oversight, but the Government 
 Accountability Office found that this action is a rule that should have 
 been submitted into the Congressional record, and is thus subject to a 
 challenge under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code (commonly known 
 as the ``Congressional Review Act'');
Whereas the Secretary has been a key instigator and supporter of a health care 
 agenda that will have devastating impacts for Americans, including under 
 Public Law 119-21, and the Congressional Budget Office estimated that 
 this law alone will cut $1,000,000,000,000 from the United States health 
 care system, and cause more than 15,000,000 Americans to lose their 
 health insurance coverage. Experts also predict this law will cause more 
 than 51,000 preventable deaths, put more than 570 nursing homes at 
 immediate risk of closure, and put more than 330 rural hospitals and 
 1,800 community health center sites across the country at immediate risk 
 of reducing services, converting to a different type of facility, or 
 closing altogether;
Whereas it was reported that in order to secure support for his nomination from 
 certain Republican Senators, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. committed that, as 
 Secretary, he would maintain the Advisory Committee on Immunization 
 Practices, the critical vaccine panel that advises the Centers for 
 Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines to control disease 
 in the United States;
Whereas immediately after making that promise, the Secretary went back on his 
 word, abruptly cancelling the February meeting of the Advisory Committee 
 on Immunization Practices (referred to in this preamble as ``ACIP''), 
 and suggesting that he was preparing to remove experts from the 
 committee;
Whereas the Secretary continued to breed distrust in American scientific 
 institutions by saying in his Senate testimony and maiden speech as 
 Secretary, ``we will remove conflicts of interest from the committees 
 and research partners,'' alleging without evidence that Federal vaccine 
 advisers are not acting in the best interest of public health and 
 safety;
Whereas, in his first speech as Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. vowed to 
 investigate the scientifically supported childhood vaccine schedule, 
 saying, ``nothing is going to be off limits'';
Whereas, in June 2025, the Secretary took unprecedented steps to unceremoniously 
 fire all 17 members of ACIP without cause, replacing them with 8 
 handpicked members, some of whom are vaccine skeptics and have conflicts 
 of interest, including 1 who served as an expert witness against the 
 human papillomavirus vaccine;
Whereas just 2 weeks after the Secretary replaced all of the ACIP's members, the 
 newly comprised ACIP announced that it will revisit the childhood 
 vaccine schedule, putting access to vaccines that children have received 
 for decades, such as hepatitis B, pertussis, and polio, in danger;
Whereas the Secretary's new ACIP panel showcased an unscientific presentation 
 from Lyn Redwood, a leader in the anti-vaccine movement and the 
 President Emerita of Children's Health Defense, an anti-vaccine 
 organization the Secretary co-founded before his time in office, and 
 following Redwood's presentation, the new ACIP appointees voted 5-1 
 recommending against use of multi-dose flu vaccine containing 
 thimerosal;
Whereas the Secretary subsequently pushed out esteemed career civil servants, 
 including Dr. Peter Marks, the Director of the Center for Biologics 
 Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration, the 
 regulator responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of 
 vaccinations;
Whereas, in his resignation letter, Dr. Marks cast a light on the Secretary's 
 political interference and misinformation that was undermining the work 
 of the Food and Drug Administration, stating, ``it has become clear that 
 truth and transparency are not desired by the Secretary, but rather he 
 wishes subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies'';
Whereas, in his answers to questions for the record following his nomination 
 hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 
 of the Senate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote, ``I will do nothing as HHS 
 Secretary that makes it difficult or discourages people from taking 
 vaccines but instead seek transparency in these products'';
Whereas the Secretary has instead used his position to continue to discredit the 
 science behind vaccines, stoke fear about the efficacy and safety of 
 vaccines, and dismantle vaccine approval and education programs;
Whereas the National Institutes of Health halted funding for at least 40 
 research grants for projects studying vaccine hesitancy and paths to 
 overcome it;
Whereas the National Institutes of Health cancelled funding for studies seeking 
 new vaccines and treatments for both COVID-19 and other pathogens that 
 may cause future pandemics, requested project lists regarding mRNA 
 vaccines, the technology at the center of COVID-19 vaccinations, and 
 urged scientists to remove references to such technology from their 
 grant applications;
Whereas, after the Food and Drug Administration delayed granting a license to a 
 COVID-19 vaccine in April 2025, the Secretary falsely declared that 
 ``for respiratory illnesses, the single antigen vaccines have never 
 worked'';
Whereas, in August 2025, the Department cancelled 22 mRNA vaccine development 
 projects, as part of the Secretary's broader anti-vaccine crusade and 
 fixation on mRNA technology, with the Secretary falsely suggesting that 
 mRNA vaccines are unsafe and ineffective;
Whereas, in May 2025, in a departure from the typical process and without input 
 from ACIP, the Secretary announced that the Department removed COVID-19 
 vaccines from the list of shots recommended for healthy pregnant women 
 and children, making it harder for pregnant women and children to access 
 the COVID-19 vaccine, and months later, the Food and Drug Administration 
 approved the latest COVID vaccines with new restrictions for use, 
 further erecting barriers to access to the vaccine for Americans across 
 the Nation;
Whereas, through the Secretary's reduction in force and reorganization efforts, 
 the Department has eliminated entirely or reduced the functionality of 
 the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, the 
 National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the Division 
 of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases;
Whereas, during the Secretary's first week on the job, the Centers for Disease 
 Control and Prevention announced that it was stopping a flu vaccination 
 advertising campaign during the height of flu season;
Whereas, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a multi-
 State measles outbreak impacting communities with low measles 
 vaccination coverage has been raging during the Secretary's tenure, with 
 the number of reported cases in 2025 surpassing the number of cases when 
 the disease was declared eliminated in the United States in 2000, 
 largely due to the Measles, Mumps and Rubella vaccine (referred to in 
 this preamble as the ``MMR vaccine'') being 97 percent effective in 
 preventing measles, and the most cases in more than 3 decades, and 96 
 percent of patients during this outbreak have been unvaccinated or have 
 unknown vaccination status;
Whereas instead of vocal support for the MMR vaccine, the Secretary has uplifted 
 untested treatments like cod liver supplements, vitamin A treatments, 
 the antibiotic clarithromycin, or the asthma steroid budensonide and 
 directed Federal health agencies to explore potential new treatments for 
 measles, including vitamin A treatments;
Whereas vaccine safety experts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
 and the American Academy of Pediatrics have found no conclusive link 
 between autism and vaccines that contain thimerosal as a preservative, 
 yet the Secretary has used inconsistent and often contradictory 
 messaging around the MMR vaccine, questioning the MMR vaccine's safety 
 by incorrectly declaring, ``we don't know the risks of many of these 
 products because they're not safety tested,'' ignoring the decades of 
 scientific research behind the vaccine proving that the vaccine is safe, 
 and routinely misrepresenting the potential for adverse events from the 
 vaccine, sowing fear in the public about vaccine use;
Whereas the outbreak has resulted in hundreds of hospitalizations and 3 deaths, 
 including 2 unvaccinated school-aged children with no known underlying 
 medical condition. Yet the Secretary has downplayed the deaths 
 associated with the measles outbreak, saying that more attention should 
 be paid towards chronic diseases like diabetes and autism, while at the 
 same time falsely claiming that there may be a relationship between the 
 MMR vaccine and autism;
Whereas, on April 30, 2025, the Secretary made the false claim that the MMR 
 vaccine contains ``aborted fetus debris'', further perpetuating fears 
 and stigma about the vaccine;
Whereas this is only the latest in a series of mistruths regarding the MMR 
 vaccine that the Secretary has used his bully pulpit and position of 
 leadership as the Secretary to promote;
Whereas, in his answers to questions for the record following his nomination 
 hearing before the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 
 of the Senate, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wrote, ``addressing maternal 
 mortality, and its underlying causes, will be a priority in my 
 leadership of HHS'', yet as the Secretary, he has decimated Department 
 divisions and offices responsible for protecting the health of women and 
 their babies;
Whereas the Secretary's illegal reorganization and unlawful mass firings at the 
 Department have devastated the Centers for Disease Control and 
 Prevention's Assisted Reproductive Technologies office (which focuses on 
 infertility and in vitro fertilization research), Division of 
 Reproductive Health, Women's Health and Fertility branch, and Office of 
 Women's Health, and the Health Resources and Services Administration's 
 Maternal and Child Health Bureau;
Whereas the Secretary has made a series of offensive and scientifically 
 unfounded statements about autism, perpetuating harmful stereotypes, 
 disregarding decades of scientific research and consensus, threatening 
 public trust in lifesaving immunization programs, undermining the 
 dignity of individuals with autism, and denying individuals with 
 disabilities the services they are entitled to;
Whereas, in April 2025, the Secretary made crude, misleading, and ableist 
 comments about individuals on the autism spectrum, offensively and 
 incorrectly stating that they, ``will never pay taxes, they'll never 
 hold a job, they'll never play baseball, they'll never write a poem, 
 they'll never go on a date'';
Whereas reports have surfaced that the Secretary has directed the National 
 Institutes of Health to launch an ``autism registry'' to track Americans 
 with the disability, likely in violation of Federal privacy laws;
Whereas the Secretary hired Andrew Downing, who has made a career out of vaccine 
 injury lawsuits, including receiving financial compensation through 
 litigation against the human papillomavirus vaccine, to begin 
 ``revolutionizing the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program'', and the 
 Secretary also awarded Downing's law firm a $250,000 contract to support 
 this effort, upending the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program could 
 severely curb vaccine access across the Nation;
Whereas the Secretary has hired discredited vaccine skeptic David Geier as a 
 data analyst to examine the long-debunked and harmful theory that links 
 vaccines to autism, continuing to distort the public understanding of 
 autism;
Whereas, during his confirmation hearing before the Committee on Health, 
 Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate, Senator Hassan summarized 
 the danger of Robert F. Kennedy's words and actions best: ``The problem 
 with this witness' response on the autism cause, and the relationship to 
 vaccines, is because he is re-litigating and churning settled science, 
 so we cannot go forward and find out what the cause of autism is, and 
 treat these kids, and help these families'';
Whereas leading national autism organizations released a joint statement in 
 April 2025, on the importance of upholding scientific integrity with 
 evidence-based research and investments in diverse supports for the 
 autism community, rejecting Robert F. Kennedy's rhetoric that ``autism 
 is preventable'', his framing of autism as a ``chronic disease'', 
 ``childhood disease'', or ``epidemic'', and his perpetuation of the myth 
 that vaccines cause autism;
Whereas, on August 27, 2025, the White House and Secretary Kennedy fired Centers 
 for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Susan Monarez, just 30 
 days after her Senate confirmation, after the Director ``refused to 
 rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health 
 experts'', and according to reporting, the Secretary was insisting that 
 the Director approve all new recommendations from his hand-picked ACIP 
 panel, regardless of the science behind the decisions;
Whereas, in the same week the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 
 Director was fired, 4 high-level leaders and scientists at the Centers 
 for Disease Control and Prevention submitted their resignations because 
 of the chaos caused by the Secretary, including Director of the National 
 Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, Dr. Demetre 
 Daskalakis, Director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic 
 Infectious Diseases, Dr. Daniel Jernigan, and Centers for Disease 
 Control and Prevention Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Debra Houry;
Whereas Dr. Daskalakis wrote in his scathing resignation letter that he is 
 ``unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to 
 generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality 
 and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public's health'';
Whereas these are just the latest in a series of high-profile leaders, 
 scientists, and subject matter experts to be either directly pushed out 
 by the Secretary or forced to leave due to the toxic, chaotic, and 
 untenable environment created by the Secretary within the Department, 
 and his politicization of science;
Whereas, in August 2025, more than 750 Federal health employees, including 
 hundreds of current Department staff wrote to Kennedy imploring him to 
 ``stop spreading inaccurate health information'' and accusing him of 
 ``sowing public mistrust by questioning the integrity and morality of 
 CDC's workforce'', they suggested that Kennedy's actions have worsened 
 Americans' health and safety and are, at least in part, responsible for 
 the recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention;
Whereas, in less than a year in his role as the Secretary of Health and Human 
 Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has demonstrated a pattern of deception, 
 perpetuating erroneous and even dangerous statements that have eroded 
 public trust in the Department, Federal health agencies, and scientific 
 research;
Whereas a report by the Senate Finance Committee found that the Secretary has 
 directly taken, directed, or enabled hundreds of actions over the course 
 of every day of his tenure that put Americans' health at risk, by 
 decimating and threatening the critical staff and programs at the 
 Department, destabilizing gold-standard research, and weaponizing 
 advisory panels and systems to undermine trust in and access to 
 vaccines;
Whereas, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been negligent towards his statutory duty to 
 provide for and enhance the health and well-being of all Americans, 
 taking actions that have dismantled the public health system, defying 
 the many statutes that govern the Department's programs and appropriate 
 funding for the Department to administer such programs, and 
 intentionally undercutting the will of Congress;
Whereas Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regularly disregards the rule of law and co-opts 
 the Office of the Secretary, using the Department and its resources as a 
 means of personal gain for his agenda, and the financial gain of his 
 family, his associates, and former organization; and
Whereas the role of the Secretary of Health and Human Services is to be a 
 trusted leader and an authority on science and evidence-based health 
 policies for the American public: Now, therefore, be it
 Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate that Secretary Robert 
Francis Kennedy Jr. no longer holds the confidence of the Senate or of 
the American people to faithfully carry out his duties as Secretary of 
Health and Human Services, and thus should be removed from office.
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