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Congressional and state hearings where autism and vaccine safety are argued under oath. Latest Hearings headlines on the Live Wire
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The vaccinated-vs-unvaccinated argument is now moving from journals into sworn testimony before state legislatures, exactly the venue where school-mandate policy is decided.
The autism-vaccine question is no longer confined to advocacy conferences. It now surfaces in sworn testimony before House and Senate committees, and how the Secretary and other nominees answer under oath goes straight into the public record.
The head of the agency now funding autism-causation research drew a careful line under oath: no study he has seen implicates any single vaccine. That framing, “any single vaccine,” leaves the cumulative-schedule question open, which is exactly where the debate now sits.
The vaccinated-versus-unvaccinated comparison is the study design the reform movement has demanded for years. In 2025 that line of research was placed directly into the congressional record.
Expert testimony is how contested science becomes part of the legislative record. Hulscher’s appearance put the vaccine–autism reanalysis directly in front of federal lawmakers.
The clearest public account, under oath, of how far Kennedy has moved to remake the federal vaccine-advisory apparatus, and of the bipartisan resistance he faces.
The underlying congressional record is the document AJF returns to again and again; this entry links directly to the full government text.
