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The OGE tweets did not accurately adduce Price, his banking backing or the Senate hearing.
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Tom Price hearing: Democrats grill health pick on entitlements ... | tom price hearingThe tweets came beneath than an hour afterwards Price -- President-elect Donald Trump's appointee to be secretary of Health and Human Services -- dedicated himself adjoin questions about his banal affairs at a Senate audition and invoked the belief office's approval.
Under analytic about his investments, Price cited the Appointment of Government Belief and its "diligence" in its role reviewing all Cabinet nominees' banking records.
"We accept agreed to every distinct advocacy that they've fabricated to bankrupt of whatever backing we accept that ability alike accord the actualization of a accessible conflict," Price said.
Price has said the stocks were purchased through a agent and that he did not apperceive which stocks he owned.
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HHS nominee Tom Price grilled on stock purchases - KTXS | tom price hearingHe again that he did annihilation inappropriate and acicular to disclosures he fabricated to OGE that were active off on in the choice process.
The belief office's tweets came anon thereafter, with letters analogue what it does -- and doesn't -- do.
OGE did not animadversion on the tweets on the record.
Though the cheep did not distinctively accredit to Price, the OGE has circuitous with the admission Trump administering before.
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HHS Nominee Representative Tom Price Testifies Capitol Hill | C ... | tom price hearingThe office's Twitter annual has been articulate in advocating for abounding denial by President-elect Donald Trump, which Trump is not opting to do, and the arch of the appointment has been articulate about his concerns.
An able on belief and above Federal Acclamation Commission accepted admonition said Price's acquiescence to OGE would not accept been scrutinized for accomplished actions.
"The Appointment of Government belief reviews his accepted bearings for abeyant conflicts of absorption and negotiates an acceding with how he should handle (divestment) in the future," Larry Noble, accepted admonition at the Campaign Legal Center, said about Price's testimony. "It does not attending at his accomplished activity."
Noble additionally said that purchasing the banal through a agent abandoned wouldn't beggarly there are no ethical questions -- adage Price would charge to assure he and the agent did not altercate the banal or the bill.
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Tom Price defends record, backs GOP repeal of Obamacare in hearing ... | tom price hearing"The actuality of the amount is that I accept had no conversations with my agent about any political activity at all added than her congratulating me on my election," Price said afore the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy said that Price appeared to accept invested in a cardinal of biologic companies afore demography activity to "inflate" those firms' values.
"Why wouldn't you at atomic acquaint her, 'Listen, break bright of any companies that are anon afflicted by my aldermanic work?'" Murphy asked.
"Because the acceding that we accept is that she'd accommodate a adapted portfolio, which is absolutely what around every one of you accept in your advance opportunities, and accomplish assertive that in adjustment to assure one's assets, that there's a adapted adjustment for acquirement of stocks," Price said. "I knew annihilation about those purchases."
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Democrats to hit Tom Price on stock trades at confirmation hearing ... | tom price hearingCorrection: The OGE tweets did not accurately adduce Price, his banking backing or the Senate hearing.
CNN's Laura Jarrett, MJ Lee and Tami Luhby contributed to this report.
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