Senate Finance Committee votes to advance nomination of Tom Price, MD

The Senate Finance Committee voted to advance the nominations of Rep. Tom Price, MD, (R-Ga.) as secretary of HHS and of Steven Mnuchin as secretary of the treasury to the full Senate without the presence of Senate Democrats.“I do not think [the Democrats] can complain,” Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said. “My gosh, we have used the rules the way they ought to be used and they used the rules the way they thought they could use them, and they just did not do what was (Read more...)

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