Senate Floor – Closing Argument for the Confirmation of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services

America needs a Health Secretary who fights for the people, not the profits.

Mr. President, colleagues, and to the American people —

Today, we stand at a crossroads, where we must decide whether this nation’s healthcare system will be led by a man devoted to truth, transparency, and public well-being—or whether we will continue to let unelected corporate power and their lobbyists dictate the health of our citizens.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is not just a nominee for Health and Human Services. He is a whistleblower. A fighter. A man who has dedicated his life to exposing corruption, not enabling it. And that is why the opposition to his nomination has been so vicious. Because when you pull back the curtain on the revolving door between our government and Big Pharma, when you expose the billions of dollars exchanged to keep Americans sick rather than healthy—well, those who profit from it don’t like that very much. America needs a fighter at HHS—not a puppet.

The Opposition’s Argument is Built on a House of Lies

The opposition wants you to believe that RFK Jr. is "anti-science" simply because he questions the status quo. But let’s set the record straight—RFK Jr. isn’t anti-science; he’s anti-corruption, anti-censorship, and against Big Pharma’s stranglehold on our health. In fact, he champions real science—the kind that welcomes scrutiny, not the kind that silences dissent.

And you know what? They’re right about one thing—he does question the status quo. And that’s exactly why he’s the most qualified person for this role. Because for too long, our health policies haven’t been designed to prevent disease—they’ve been written to profit from it.

They say RFK Jr. is a "conspiracy theorist." But let’s talk about some real conspiracies—ones with price tags in the billions.

• Opioids. The same pharmaceutical industry that Congress once trusted poisoned our country with a crisis that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans. The result? Executives walked away with golden parachutes, while families were left with funerals. Where was the so-called ‘science’ that protected Americans then?

  
  

• Insulin Prices. In the wealthiest nation on earth, diabetics ration their insulin because corporate lobbyists—who have infiltrated these very halls—have ensured drug prices remain sky-high while politicians conveniently look the other way.

  
  

• Experimental Treatments. Americans are now told to shut up, take their medicine, and never question the science—even when the science shifts week to week, dictated not by independent researchers but by the same companies that profit from every injection, every pill, every booster, and every refill.

  
  

RFK Jr. has spent his career demanding accountability from these very institutions. He has fought for cleaner water, safer medicines, and regulatory agencies that serve the people, not corporate interests. And that, my friends, is why the establishment wants to crucify him.

The Real Reason They Oppose RFK Jr.?

Because if he is confirmed, the days of rubber-stamping corporate-driven health policy will be over. No more revolving doors between the FDA, CDC, and the pharmaceutical boardrooms. No more blind trust in agencies captured by the industries they claim to regulate.

We are being asked today to decide whether health policy will be dictated by science and reason—or by political and financial interests that profit from keeping Americans sick.

RFK Jr. will not be bullied. He will not bow to lobbyists. He will not take his marching orders from corporate executives who view American lives as line items on a profit sheet.

The Choice Before Us

If you vote against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. today, you are voting for the status quo—a status quo where drug companies dictate policy, where transparency is ridiculed, and where anyone who dares to ask questions is labeled a heretic.

But if you vote for RFK Jr., you are voting for integrity, for science free from political interference, and for a Secretary of Health and Human Services who actually prioritizes the health and well-being of the American people over corporate interests.

We must make a choice. We can bend the knee to the very industries that view Americans as customers, not patients. Or we can stand for the people—for those who have suffered, who have been lied to, who have lost trust in their own institutions because those institutions long ago stopped serving them.

For once, let’s put the people first. For once, let’s confirm someone who will not be bought, pressured, or silenced.

I urge every single one of you—Republicans, Democrats, Independents—to set aside the lobbyists, the rhetoric, and the manufactured outrage from those with something to lose. Vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Because the only people who fear his leadership are the ones who deserve to.

And that, my colleagues, tells you everything you need to know.

I yield the floor.

Disclaimer: A Defining Moment in American History

If the Senate fails to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services, history will record it not as a rejection of a man, but as the ultimate exposure of a system where truth takes a backseat to power, and politicians serve their donors before their constituents.

This will go down as one of the greatest political hack jobs in American history—a blatant reminder of what happens when elected officials bow to corporate masters rather than stand for the people who put them in office.

We deserve a leader who prioritizes public health over profit margins, who answers to Americans instead of Big Pharma, and who fights for freedom, accountability, and real science—not manufactured narratives.

"I would rather have questions that cannot be answered than answers that cannot be questioned."

For too long, we have been spoon-fed answers that we are forbidden to challenge. But if science cannot be questioned, then it is no longer science—it is propaganda.

COVID-19 was more than a deadly pandemic—it was the moment when science, logic, evidence-based medicine, and freedom were put on life support.

This is our moment to revive them. RFK Jr. is the man to do it.

Rejecting him means embracing the status quo: a system where pharmaceutical corporations dictate policy, where transparency is sacrificed for control, and where the American people are told to "follow the science"—as long as it serves an agenda.

The Senate’s choice will be remembered. They can either stand with the people and confirm a man who will fight for truth, or sell out to the highest bidder and show the world, once and for all, that our health policy is not written in the halls of Congress, but in the boardrooms of billion-dollar drug companies.

America is watching.

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"Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution, the time will come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship to restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges to others; the Constitution of this republic should make special privileges for medical freedom as well as religious freedom."  Dr. Benjamin Rush, personal physician to George Washington