Senator Bill Cassidy, a powerful Republican senator from Louisiana, has called for an important federal vaccine meeting this week to be delayed, after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired and replaced the panel’s prior members. In a post to the social media site X Monday , Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) called for the delay of this week’s meeting of a federal vaccine advisory panel handpicked by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., citing conce…, Cassidy calls to delay meeting of CDC’s vaccine panel in challenge to RFK Jr. Senator says advisers picked by RFK Jr. lack experience, may be biased against some shots Manage alerts for this article, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., called for a meeting of a CDC vaccine panel to be postponed citing a lack of experience among its members, newly appointed by HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. File , Committee Chair Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, left, greets Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., before he testifies before a Senate committee on Health, Education , .