The AP and the Guardian obtained a January 2019 letter in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked Samoa's prime minister to let his team study the country's MMR vaccines. He told senators the trip had nothing to do with vaccines. Fourteen Republicans we track voted to confirm him.
Barr sent Governor Beshear a letter demanding evidence that 35 rural hospitals are at risk. Beshear called it 'misleading and inaccurate' and pointed out that Barr voted for the cuts. Barr's proof that the warnings were wrong: the hospitals are still open, one year into a ten-year cut.
A sealed Florida grand jury report obtained by CBS News Miami says the money was misappropriated in a 'sophisticated scheme to fund political activities' — and that Moody's own deputy objected, then was satisfied once the paperwork made it another agency's problem.
Graham told a runoff-night crowd her family worked through illness because 'if the doors weren't open, we weren't making money.' Her first month in the Senate included a vote to keep insurance-company gatekeeping inside Medicare.
The healthcare billionaire running for governor told a Buckhead audience that not having insurance 'does not mean you don't have healthcare,' and said his plan is to help people get off Medicaid. His campaign website's entire healthcare policy is two words: 'transform healthcare.'
On Face the Nation, Margaret Brennan told Byron Donalds nearly all of Florida is below the vaccination rate needed for herd immunity and asked if his message to parents was to vaccinate. He answered 'No' and said the outbreaks are caused by 'rampant illegal immigration.' Florida had 141 measles cases by late July.
Husted was one of 14 statewide candidates invited to answer pre-written questions from Ohio's disability community on Aug. 20. He didn't show. At 8:19 that night he posted photos from a shooting range.
Constituents protested outside Carey's Columbus office over his vote for Trump's budget bill. The event's organizers counted 12% of households in Ohio's 15th District on SNAP and $40.4 million in special education funding at risk. Carey's office did not respond to a request for comment.
In 2007, Texas built the largest state cancer research program in American history. It passed overwhelmingly, and 61% of voters approved it. Paxton was one of just 26 no votes — and in the same session he helped kill the state's mandate for the vaccine that prevents cervical cancer.