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US SR374
Resolution
AI Summary
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Senate resolution expressing that HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. lacks Senate and public confidence and should be removed from office, introduced September 4, 2025 by Senator Alsobrooks with 22 Democratic co-sponsors
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Cites termination of $11 billion in public health funding to states on March 24, 2025, and firing of 5,200 probationary workers two days after being sworn in, with plans to eliminate 20,000 total federal health agency employees
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Alleges Secretary replaced all 17 members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) in June 2025 with 8 hand-picked members including vaccine skeptics, and directed review of the childhood vaccine schedule
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References ongoing measles outbreak with cases surpassing levels when disease was declared eliminated in 2000, with 96% of patients unvaccinated, and CDC Director Dr. Susan Monarez fired 30 days after Senate confirmation
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Claims violations of multiple federal statutes including the Public Health Service Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and Older Americans Act through unauthorized reorganizations, grant terminations, and elimination of Offices of Minority Health
Legislative Description
A 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.
Health
Last Action
Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text: CR S6330-6333)
9/4/2025