Senate Finance Advances Tom Price HHS Confirmation, Sans Democrats

An all-Republican Senate Finance panel changed the committee’s rules Feb. 1 and voted 14-0 to advance HHS Secretary nominee Tom Price’s, R-Ga., confirmation to the full Senate, after the panel’s Democrats, led by ranking member Ron Wyden of Oregon, boycotted Price’s confirmation markup for a second day due to lingering questions about Price’s investments in Innate Immunotherapeutics stocks, Wyden said.