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Senate Committees to Vote on Sessions, DeVos, Zinke, Perry & Price Nominations

HeadlineJan 31, 2017

Senate committees are also expected to vote today on Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Betsy DeVos for education secretary, Rick Perry to head the Energy Department, Ryan Zinke to head the Interior Department and Tom Price to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Price has been a major proponent of the Republicans’ plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Yesterday, hundreds of medical students staged a die-in outside Fox News in New York City to protest the repeal of Obamacare.

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