"I will not condone the re-litigation of proven cures," said McConnell, the lone Republican to oppose Kennedy's confirmation.

A survivor of childhood polio, Sen. Mitch McConnell was the only Republican in the Senate to vote No. Here's how he explained his vote.

McConnell's vote comes a day after he voted no on the confirmation of new National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard on Wednesday.

RFK Jr. will become Trump's health secretary, after winning over some GOP senators wary of his anti-vaccine views.

President Trump on Thursday took a swing at Senator Mitch McConnell’s battle with polio after the 82-year-old lawmaker voted against RFK, Jr.

Drew Petrimoulx chats with The Hill’s congressional reporter Mychael Schnell about longtime vaccine critic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. becoming the nation’s top health official, after the Senate on Thursday voted almost entirely on party lines to confirm him atop a department of nearly 100,

Senator Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, voted against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during his confirmation for Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Thursday morning.

McConnell cited what he called Kennedy’s “record of trafficking in dangerous conspiracy theories and eroding trust in public health institutions.”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an avid advocate against vaccines, is now the Health Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Mitch McConnell broke from his party Thursday for the second day in a row, casting a no vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination as Health and Human Services secretary. McConnell was the only Senate Republican to vote against RFK Jr.

I had no idea he had polio,” Trump said when asked about the 82-year-old Kentucky senator’s decision to vote against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS secretary.