What is the full transcript or video record of the Senate committee hearing where Kennedy spoke?
Executive summary
The full public record for the Senate hearings in which Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified is available in multiple places: official committee pages and government transcript repositories host written transcripts and testimony files, while C-SPAN and committee livestreams provide the video record; reporters and transcript services have also published searchable versions and curated highlights [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]. Which “hearing” is meant matters — Kennedy appeared at both his nomination/confirmation hearing before the HELP Committee in January 2025 and at a high‑profile Finance Committee hearing on September 4, 2025 — and records exist for each on the sites below [2] [1] [5].
1. Where to find the official written transcript for the HELP confirmation hearing (January 2025)
The Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee’s webpage for Kennedy’s nomination explicitly posts the final printed hearing transcript and links to his written testimony, making that confirmation hearing’s full text a primary source for his January testimony [2]; the Library of Congress collection and Congress.gov aggregate published Senate hearing transcripts after GPO release, and can be used to retrieve the official transcript once published there [6].
2. Where to find the Finance Committee transcript and testimony (September 4, 2025)
The Senate Finance Committee’s hearing page for “The President’s 2026 Health Care Agenda” posts hearing materials and livestream instructions and provides downloadable testimony for witnesses including Kennedy, which serves as the official repository for the Finance Committee’s written record of the September 4 hearing [1]. Major outlets summarizing that Finance hearing note it ran roughly three hours and that the committee posted written materials and encouraged use of the committee livestream — for the verbatim Q&A, the committee page and the committee’s posted transcript (or the GPO/Congress.gov feed once processed) are the authoritative sources [1] [5].
3. Where to find the video record: C-SPAN, committee livestreams, PBS and archived footage
Full video of Kennedy’s testimony is available via C‑SPAN’s recorded programs for both confirmation and subsequent hearings — there are C‑SPAN pages for his January hearings and for the Finance/HHS budget hearings — and C‑SPAN allows downloading or viewing of the full sessions [3] [4]. The Senate committees themselves routinely livestream hearings from their websites; the Finance Committee and HELP pages directed the public to their livestreams for the relevant sessions [1] [2], and public broadcasters such as PBS and Newshour hosted embedded live players and archived clips of the Sept. 4 hearing [5] [7].
4. Media transcripts, curated highlight reels, and fact‑checking of contentious exchanges
Multiple news organizations produced line‑by‑line highlights, analyses and partial transcripts of heated exchanges — for example, Rev published a verbatim transcript of portions of Kennedy’s confirmation hearing and other outlets (PBS, CNN, Reuters, NYT, NPR) provided extended coverage and quoted exchanges in context — but these are derivative and should be cross‑checked against the committee’s official transcript or the full C‑SPAN video for verbatim accuracy [8] [9] [10] [11] [12].
5. How to retrieve the “full” record and caveats about versions
To obtain the unabridged, authoritative record: download the committee’s posted transcript and any “statement for the record” PDFs from the HELP or Finance committee pages, and pair them with the full C‑SPAN video of the same date; the Library of Congress/GPO (Congress.gov) list of published Senate hearing transcripts provides the formally printed version once it is released [2] [1] [6] [3]. Reporters’ contemporaneous stories and transcript services are useful for searchable text and time‑stamped clips, but they may excerpt or paraphrase; always compare those to the committee’s posting and the C‑SPAN archive for complete context [8] [5].