Nine new members have joined the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, which provides "advice and recommendations" on autism to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. John Gilmore, executive director of the Autism Action Network, said he and the other new members "are picking up the pieces following a generation of profound failure."

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. appointed 21 new members to a committee that advises the secretary on autism-related policy and research.

One of the new members, John Gilmore, told The Defender that the committee's "first order of business" is to "answer the many unanswered questions about autism."