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Attack on Children's Health

Floor Speech

Date: Dec. 10, 2025
Location: Washington, DC

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Mr. LATIMER. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to bring attention to Secretary Kennedy and the Trump administration's most recent attack on our children's health.

On Friday, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, the panel of anti-vaxxers that Secretary Kennedy put in charge, upended over three decades of precedent on hepatitis B vaccine recommendations for babies.

Secretary Kennedy's fascination with quackery has, once again, set health, science, and medicine in America backward.

The new guidance says that only babies whose mothers test positive for hepatitis B or whose status is unknown should receive the vaccine.

For every other baby, the committee has decided not to give a recommendation.

If acting CDC Director O'Neil approves this recommendation, countless babies will be at risk of liver disease and other long-lasting health issues.

Mr. Speaker, I call on the administration to reject this unscientific and reckless proposal before it harms our children.

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