WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy's vociferous opposition to the nation’s tightening vaccination policies is becoming more pointed, though he has avoided directly criticizing by name Health Chief Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a leader in anti-vaccination efforts.

“I’m a doctor. I have seen people die from vaccine-preventable disease,” Cassidy said two weeks ago on Face the Nation, reprising talking points the Baton Rouge Republican has made repeatedly. “I want people to be healthy. I want to make America healthy, and you don’t start by stopping recommendations that have made us substantially healthier.”

As chair of the Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions committee, Cassidy gave Kennedy legitimacy with fellow senators who greenlighted his confirmation to run the U.S. Department of Heal

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