It isn’t often that Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) raises his voice, but he sure did Wednesday while taking Robert Kennedy Jr. to task for some of the more outlandish conspiracy theories he’s spent a career breathing life into.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. conceded Wednesday he “probably did” once say that Lyme disease is a “military-engineered bioweapon.” Kennedy’s answer came in response to a fiery line of questioning by Sen. Michael Bennet at his confirmation hearing to become Donald Trump’s health secretary.

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet joined fellow Democrats on Wednesday morning in hammering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on his changing position on abortion and his history of platforming conspiracy theories and

If approved, Kennedy will control a $1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and hospital inspections, hundreds of health clinics, vaccine recommendations and health insurance for roughly half the country.

Colo., accused Robert F. Kennedy Jr., of "peddling in half-truths" during his Senate confirmation hearing and brought up his past statements on diseases and vaccines.

"All of a sudden, boom, he emerges and just unleashes on somebody. He went off on Republican Senator Ted Cruz a couple of years ago. Remember that?”

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, squared off with Democratic senators for more than four hours in a contentious confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will stand before the Senate Finance Committee on Wednesday and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee Thursday as President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

The man who hopes to be President Trump’s Health secretary says he needs to see data showing vaccines are safe, but dismissed evidence shown by a Republican senator.

In hearings Wednesday and Thursday, senators questioned President Trump's nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over his fitness to be the country's top health official and control the mammoth $1.7 trillion agency.

President Trump's nominee to be top US spy, Tulsi Gabbard, and pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, face tough Senate hearings.