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A lot of these nominations. and this is it looks like they'll be approved fairly quickly. lamar alexander, senator from tennessee, is the chairman of this committee, he's just started the hearing. let's listen in. >> -- single round of seven minutes of questions, that seems to me to give every member of the senate more time to ask questions of secretary thompson. this is a courtesy hearing. dr. price will be before the finance committee on next tuesday. a number of the members of the committee are also members of the finance committee. we don't vote on his nomination. they vote on his nominati...

>> chris, thank you. msnbc's kasie hunt is on capitol hill covering the tom price hearing for secretary of hhs. kasie? >> reporter: greta, some tough questioning for tom price here on capitol hill today. it wasn't his official confirmation hearing. that will come in front of the finance committee later. this was a courtesy hearing with the health committee that has some oversight of the hhs secretary position. and price has come under fire for stock trades that he has made oef his career, over $300,000 in stocks in health care, medical device companies. a few stocks in particular that have c...

President-elect trump's 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 don't vote on his nomination. they vote on his nomination, and we'll be the ones that report it to the f...

Democrats, holding him off staves that off. >> courtesy hearing? i feel like they are not going to be too courteous today. and then wilber ross is going before the commerce committee, and kelly o'donnell is there with more. >> reporter: good morning, stephanie. this is a situation where billionaire, wilber ross, will be in charge of, if he is confirmed, trying to get the country's business going, and that sounds very much like donald trump. he is worth himself more than $2.5 billion, and he reached an agreement with the office of government ethics to divest a number of his holdings, and not ...

We're going to have more on that meeting between the president and those automakers coming up later in the show. we want to get to what is happening right here on capitol hill. confirmations for georgia congressman tom price. he's going to oversee the overhaul of the health care law. lawmakers gave him kind of an earful last week when he was in a courtesy hearing. today is the real deal. mark murray is in washington. what do we expect from his hearing? i imagine he's going to get more questions on the plans to replace obamacare. >> you're going to hear democrats ask those kind of questions but...