A polarized Senate voted early Friday morning to confirm Tom Price, the conservative Georgia congressman who has been one of Congress's most vehement opponents of the Affordable Care Act, as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services.
The 52-47 vote made Price the latest in a series of controversial Cabinet nominees whom the Senate's Republican majority has been strong enough to muscle through on party-line votes.
Price did not draw a single vote from Senate Democrats, who argued that the intersection of the nominee's personal investments and legislative behavior warranted deeper scrutiny of his ethics.
