At the forefront of Kennedy -Confirmation voting, the Senates Democrats require more details of his finances

With a committee vote scheduled Tuesday for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the Senates Democrats require more details of nominated relations with vaccine laws and says Kennedy should promise to recover from anyone Vaccine-related decisions if confirmed health secretary.

The requirements came in letter released Monday by Sens. Ron Wyden and Elizabeth Warren after Kennedy told the legislators that he was planning to dispose of his financial share in an ongoing vaccine law case to his adult son practicing law in California.

The description matches his son, Connor Kennedy, who is a lawyer at Wisner Baum, a California-based law firm representing the plaintiffs of a civil lawsuit against Gardasil, a vaccine aimed at the purpose of disease control and prevention.

Warren and Wyden, the supreme Democrat of the Senate Finance Committee, called the event to allow his son to collect future referral fees in the trial “unrest” and “clearly inadequate.”

“The event described in your amendment to ethical agreement is clearly inadequate as it seems to allow a immediate family member to take advantage of your position as secretary,” wrote Wyden, D-Or., And Warren , D-Mass.

It is not clear whether the letter was released Monday by the Democrats would affect Kennedy’s confirmation as health secretary, which could still be pushed through by the Republican majority. However, it is possible that Republican Senators with concern about Kennedy’s nomination – including Senator Bill Cassidy – could use the Democrats’ request to slow down the verification process.

“Your past by undermining confidence in vaccines with unfounded or misleading arguments concerns me,” said Cassidy, R.-L., a doctor, in his opening notes during a hearing last week on Kennedy’s nomination.

He added, “Can I trust that it is now in the past? Can data and information change your opinion? Or do you only want to look for data that supports a predetermined conclusion? This is imperative.”

The Senate Finance Committee, chairman of Cassidy, is scheduled to vote on Tuesday on Kennedy’s nomination.

Warren and Wyden said they couldn’t trust that Kennedy’s financial information was “accurate and complete” because they didn’t put out how many cases Kennedy referred to Wisner Baum and whether vaccines were involved.

Wisner Baum has said it has not paid the nominee for any vaccin-related cases as the current Gardasil case is ongoing.

Wyden and Warren said that any involvement is a direct conflict of interest if he was to become health secretary due to his supervision of vaccines.

“By using your authority and bully -sermon as secretary to swing the result of the trial and secure a great verdict or settlement, you would increase the chances of a great payout for yourself,” they wrote.