Members of the American Medical Association passed an emergency resolution during their annual meeting calling on the Senate to investigate Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

The emergency resolution on Tuesday came as a response to Kennedy’s controversial decision to fire the 17 sitting members of a vaccine safety advisory panel within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, announced Monday afternoon.

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Since Kennedy’s announcement that he would fire all members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, members of the medical community have sounded the alarm that Kennedy, who has long been skeptical of vaccines, will replace members of the committee with professionals who oppose vaccines.

Delegates for the AMA annual meeting were largely in agreement to condemn Kennedy’s action on the ACIP but were divided on whether to include language calling on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to investigate Kennedy’s motives.

Dr. John Corker, a delegate from Ohio, said during floor debates that calling for a Senate investigation would be a “poison pill” that would undermine the rest of the AMA’s policy goals.

The resolution’s sponsor, Dr. Jason Goldman of the American College of Physicians, urged his colleagues to support the request for an investigation to ensure the AMA is not “on the wrong side of history.”

Goldman specifically put pressure on Senate HELP Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy (R-LA), a physician by training, who said on the Senate floor this spring that Kennedy reassured him that he would not disrupt the system of vaccine safety without consulting the committee.

“Kennedy promised he would not change ACIP,” Goldman said. “He clearly has.”

On Monday evening, Cassidy posted on social media in response to the news breaking of Kennedy’s decision to fire the ACIP members, saying he spoke with the HHS secretary that afternoon.

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“Of course, now the fear is that the ACIP will be filled up with people who know nothing about vaccines except suspicion,” Cassidy posted. “I’ve just spoken with Secretary Kennedy, and I’ll continue to talk with him to ensure this is not the case.”

Cassidy’s office did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment regarding the AMA’s resolution.