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Trump announces ex-Big Pharma exec Alex Azar as Tom Price's replacement at Health and Human Services
President Donald Trump today announced he's nominating Alex Azar to be Department of Health and Human Services secretary, replacing Tom Price.
Azar is a former executive for pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and worked as a deputy secretary at HHS under President George W. Bush.
Price resigned Sept. 29 amid investigations into his use of charter jets at taxpayers' expense.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Azar, 50, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and then worked for then-independent counsel Ken Starr on the so-called Whitewater investigation that embroiled the Clinton administration. Azar calls Starr a mentor.
Azar is a former executive for pharmaceutical company Eli Lilly and worked as a deputy secretary at HHS under President George W. Bush.
Price resigned Sept. 29 amid investigations into his use of charter jets at taxpayers' expense.
After graduating from Yale Law School, Azar, 50, clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and then worked for then-independent counsel Ken Starr on the so-called Whitewater investigation that embroiled the Clinton administration. Azar calls Starr a mentor.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-announces-alex-azar-tom-prices-replacement-department/story?id=51112984
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