Rep. Tom Price of Georgia was sworn in Friday as health and human services secretary, setting the stage for the conservative to play a leading role in dismantling President Barack Obama’s health care law. Vice President Mike Pence administered the oath to Price hours after he won Senate confirmation on a narrow 52-47 vote early Friday.
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Senate confirms polarizing pick for health secretary
A polarized Senate voted early Friday morning to confirm Tom Price, the conservative Georgia congressman who has been one of Congress’s most vehement opponents of the Affordable Care Act, as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services. The 52-47 vote made Price the latest in a series of controversial Cabinet nominees whom the Senate’s Republican majority has been strong enough to muscle through on party-line votes.
Price nears Senate confirmation as Trump health secretary
Republicans are ready to overpower Democrats and push another of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees through the Senate, the man who will help lead the GOP drive to erase and replace the health care law.
The Latest: Price transfers business ownership to wife
Tom Price, President Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, has amended his government ethics agreement as the Senate prepares to debate and vote on his confirmation. In the amended agreement released Wednesday, Price says he has transferred ownership interest in a business to his wife.
Health pick Price grilled
President Donald Trump’s choice to become health and human services secretary told a Senate committee Tuesday that the new administration believes that people with existing illnesses should not be denied health insurance. But Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., committed to no details on that or any aspects of how Republicans will reshape the previous president’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Trump’s healthcare pick invested in pharma stocks 3 months before…
Amid Rep. Tom Price’s second hearing on Capitol Hill for the role of Health and Human Services secretary, the question of Price’s ethics during his tenure in Congress are sure to come up. Price introduced legislation that would have made a tax deduction on Puerto Rico manufacturing plants permanent.
Trump’s healthcare pick invested in pharma stocks 3 months before…
Amid Rep. Tom Price’s second hearing on Capitol Hill for the role of Health and Human Services secretary, the question of Price’s ethics during his tenure in Congress are sure to come up. Price introduced legislation that would have made a tax deduction on Puerto Rico manufacturing plants permanent.
Price attempts to reassure on health care; Dems not buying it
Offering reassurances, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary said Wednesday the new administration won’t “pull the rug out” from those covered by “Obamacare.” Democrats were unimpressed, noting a lack of specifics.
Trump’s HHS Nominee Got A Sweetheart Deal From A Foreign Biotech Firm
… $2. One of the beneficiaries was Rep. Tom Price, a Georgia Republican poised to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which regulates pharmaceuticals. Price told HHS ethics officials Thursday that if appointed, he will …
Trump’s HHS Nominee Got a Sweetheart Drug Stock Deal
… One of the beneficiaries was Rep. Tom Price, a Georgia Republican nominated to become secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, which regulates pharmaceuticals. Price told HHS ethics officials Thursday that if appointed, he will …