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Bill Cassidy favors cognitive tests for aging leaders of government: 'A reasonable plan'

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In media news today, NBC fact-checks Anthony Fauci's COVID superspreader comments, Jon Stewart says the media is making a'mistake' casting Trump as a'supervillain,' and CNN's Brian Stelter frets that Katie Couric's editing scandal further damages the media's reputation Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., told Axios that he favored cognitive tests for aging government leaders in order to make sure their ability to serve the American people remained intact. On Sunday's "Axios on HBO," Cassidy cited past U.S. Senators he said were senile by the end of their times in office to argue a cognitive test applying across all three branches of government would be "a reasonable plan." "The Speaker of the House is 81. Wisdom comes with age, but the science is also clear that we aren't who we were, that we do lose things with age. As a medical professional, is that something we should be thinking about?"