Kentucky lawmakers completed their work Tuesday to reduce the state’s individual income tax rate, delivering on a top Republican priority on just the fifth day of this year's session. Final passage came on a 34-3 Senate vote to lower the tax to 3.

Bill Cassidy now expects to have “a great working relationship to make America healthy again” with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The Louisiana Republican said that and more on the Senate floor after voting to advance Kennedy’s nomination to lead the nation’s health agencies — five days after saying he was conflicted about Kennedy and grilled the nominee about his earlier assertions that widely accepted vaccines are unsafe.