WASHINGTON — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), member of the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, released the following statement on Tuesday regarding President-elect Trump’s nomination of Tom Price as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:

“I will not support Tom Price for Secretary of Health and Human Services. Tom Price was the face and voice of the Republicans' effort to privatize Medicare and repeal health coverage for twenty million Americans. I will not be any part of the Republicans' plan to drastically cut benefits to seniors by turning their Medicare benefit into a voucher. And I will not support a nominee who has made it clear he wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and replace it with absolutely nothing. The nomination vote on Tom Price is the first test of whether Congress is prepared to stand up to the Republicans' clear desire to end Medicare as we know it and steal health care insurance from millions of Americans. This will be one of the biggest fights that Congress will have with the new administration, and it starts with this nomination.”

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