Senate Democrats boycott executive session on HHS, treasury secretary nominations

Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted the executive session that would decide the nominations of Rep. Tom Price, MD, (R-Ga.) as secretary of HHS and Steven Mnuchin as secretary of the treasury.“I am disappointed that [the Democrats] are boycotting this consideration of Steven Mnuchin to be the secretary of the treasury and Representative Tom Price, one of the members of our Congress, to be secretary of Health and Human Services,” Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said. “We ought to be proud of [Price] and we (Read more...)

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