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Progress we've 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 in a timely and thorough manner. i'm looking forward to what i hope will be a rigorous and open di...

Congressman tom price. his opening statement here on capitol hill. let's 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. price's home state senator. before senator isaacson introduces the nominee, senator murray and i will each make a fuf introductory remarks. after the nominee makes his statement, we'll have the usual round of questions. now let me say something about the roun...

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. it's 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 we've seen haley pressed by senator ben cardin on her qualifications, her foreign policy experience, why she sho...

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 that's why it is so important to members of our committee. now having said that, i want to say this. the health of our families and communities could not be more important to our s...

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...