Tom Price confirmed as Health Secretary

• In a 52-47 party-line vote early this morning, Senators confirmed Georgia House Budget Chairman Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services, placing him atop a sprawling agency tasked with dismantling the Affordable Care Act.
• During one of his two confirmation hearings last month, Price told lawmakers Obamacare would be replaced "piece-by-piece" and "no one is interested in pulling the rug out from anybody."
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