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Progress weve made to expand quality, affordable health care. i urge my republican colleagues to attend and prioritize what is best for these men, women and families, not what is best for pluks as they consider each of the decisions in the coming weeks. as we begin this hearing, ides ask you to be as transparent and frank as possible about your views and your plans for the department and urge you to commit to providing us with additional information and answers to any follow-up questions we have...

Congressman tom price. his opening statement here on capitol hill. lets listen. >> -- you and your wife betty who is here today. i enjoyed having the opportunity to visit with you in my office and to learn from you about your plans. dr. price will be introduced today in a few minutes by johnny isakson, a member of this committee, and dr. prices home state senator. before senator isaacson introduces the nominee, senator murray and i will each make a fuf introductory remarks. after the nominee mak...

You heard a lot of not just policy but politics as well with senator patty murray immediately going after price on these questions of stock trades that he made prior to introducing a bill. democrats questioning whether it was an ethical conflict of interest. the trump transition team calling those allegations. its not just the tom price hearing that is happening today but three other hearings for these top trump cabinet picks including nikki haley to be the u.n. ambassador. already weve seen hal...

Like to ask consent to put parts of the record of the nominees of michael levitt, andrew van orbenback and tom daschle into the record of this hearing. >> that would be fine. >> and again, our members have questions because this nominee is going to have jurisdiction over the health care and lives of millions of americans, and we want to know where he stands before we make a decision yes or no for him to be there. so thats why it is so important to members of our committee. now having said that, ...

President-elect trumps nominee approximately the same as the way we treated other nominees is to have a single round of seven-minute questions today. that would be the precedent followed with secretary thompson and that seems to be -- to give every member of the senate more time to ask questions of the secretary. this is a courtesy hearing. dr. price will be before the finance committee on next tuesday. a number of the members of this committee are also members of the finance committee. we dont ...

And when seniors are able to trust that the guarantee of programs they have paid into, medicare and social security, will be ther when needed, we live up to some of our countrys most vital responsibilities. the department of health and human services has a critical role to play in our ongoing work to meet each of these goals and many more. that is why in evaluating a nominee for secretary of health and human services, i consider whether the nominee has a record of putting people first, not polit...

He has all of his paperwork in place before the finance committee, including the letter of agreement wh the office of government ethics which is on the website and available to members of this committee as well as others. and so its my hope would be that in our seven minutes of questions that wed have time to focus on the responsibilities of the department of health and human services rather than have a continuing discussion about the number of minutes. there will be an opportunity following the...

What remains of the law that did the damage and created all this risk. i know that the president-elect has said that after you are confirmed, which is, i hope, fairly early in february, that he will propose a plan to congress. i look forward to that plan. and i know you cant tell us what that plan is today, but i do look forward to hearing from you how you suggest we approach this. we want to do this right. we want to sequence the events carefully and adequately so americans have concrete practi...

Your wife betty who is here with you as well. but before i speak about this nominee, i do want to say that we remain deeply disappointed in last night where democrats were blocked from asking more than one round of questions on betsy devos who is the nominee for secretary of education. and are disappointed that we are rushing this hearing as well. mr. chairman, you said seven minutes, but i will just say, i dont think any of us in prior nominees that you keep pointing to ever thought if i dont a...

The presidents health care law. thats why so much focus on him from democrats, hallie. >> even though this is not his official confirmation hearing, the one that ends up in the record boards to get him to the senate floor for a vote. this is the first time hell be facing senators as a cabinet nominee, someone tasked with shepherding through this replacement plan. im told we shouldnt necessarily expect price to get into the nitty-gritty of what the replacement plan will be. its going to be more b...