"I will not condone the re-litigation of proven cures," said McConnell, the lone Republican to oppose Kennedy's confirmation.

President Donald Trump seems to have questioned a well-documented part of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s life — his childhood battle with polio

Mitch McConnell's life -- his childhood battle with polio -- after the Kentucky Republican opposed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation Thursday as the nation's top health official.

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell announced on Thursday that he will not seek reelection next year, bringing an end to his decades-long tenure as a key power broker in the Senate. McConnell, the longest-serving Senate party leader in US history,

Mitch McConnell was the only Republican in the Senate to vote no ... He contracted the disease in 1944, before the polio vaccine was available, and experienced paralysis in his left leg. Immunization campaigns starting in the 1950s eventually eliminated ...

I had no idea he had polio,” Trump said when asked about the 82-year-old Kentucky senator’s decision to vote against Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for HHS secretary.

President Trump on Thursday blasted Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for his vote opposing Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., disregarding his childhood bout with polio and

The Senate approved Kennedy to lead the Department of Health and Human Services on a largely party line vote on Thursday.