{"id":10603,"date":"2025-06-24T21:20:44","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-chair-asks-rfk-jr-to-retract-claim-against-democrat-in-hearing\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:20:44","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:20:44","slug":"gop-chair-asks-rfk-jr-to-retract-claim-against-democrat-in-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/gop-chair-asks-rfk-jr-to-retract-claim-against-democrat-in-hearing\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP chair asks RFK Jr. to retract claim against Democrat in hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A House Energy &amp; Commerce&#8217;s Health subcommittee came to a brief halt on Tuesday as the Republican chair asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract his accusations that a Democratic member&#8217;s stance on vaccines was influenced by campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies. Kennedy appeared before the subcommittee to defend the Trump administration&#8217;s budget&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/healthcare\/5366345-kennedy-retracts-claims-pallone\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A House Energy &amp; Commerce&#8217;s Health subcommittee came to a brief halt on Tuesday as the Republican chair asked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to retract his accusations that a Democratic member&#8217;s stance on vaccines was influenced by campaign contributions from pharmaceutical companies. Kennedy appeared before the subcommittee to defend the Trump administration&#8217;s budget&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}