Republican Senators on Capitol Hill … share their hesitations about [Donald] Trump’s preferred candidate to lead the Department of Health and Human Services….
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[K]ennedy pledged to “reverse 80 years of farm policy in this country, which have directed us toward industrial agriculture, industrial meat production, factory farming, chemical-based agriculture, carbon-based fertilizers, all of these things that are destroying the soils in our country.”Related on the SLP
That kind of anti-pesticide rhetoric is not lost on many Republican lawmakers. “For those of us in agriculture, the biggest thing I hear is: ‘Well, we’ve got to be able to utilize modern farming practices that [include] fertilizers, pesticides, all those kinds of things that go into our food supply,’” says Senator John Hoeven (R., N. D.).
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Senator Ron Johnson (R., Wis.) … remains optimistic about Kennedy’s confirmation chances.
