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Rep. Tom Price is the Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration. Previously, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives for the 6th District of Georgia, an area that includes Marietta and Canton.

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Tom Price
stated on May 10, 2017 in press conference about opioid addiction:

"I think if you look at the entire federal government and the president’s commitment to (fighting opioid addiction), you’ll see that there are actually hundreds of millions of dollars increase on this issue."

By Ella Nilsen • May 26, 2017
Tom Price
stated on May 7, 2017 in an interview on CNN's State of the Union:

"We have got 20 million folks out there across this land who have told the federal government, ‘Phooey, nonsense, I’m not going to participate in your program, because it doesn’t do what I need done.’ "

By Amy Sherman • May 8, 2017
Tom Price
stated on March 12, 2017 in an interview on "Meet the Press":

"The number of individuals who actually got coverage through the exchange who didn't have coverage before, or who weren't eligible for Medicaid before is relatively small. So we've turned things upside down completely for 3 million, or 4 million, or 5 million individuals."

By Aaron Sharockman • March 12, 2017
Tom Price
stated on March 7, 2017 in a press briefing:

The Obama administration said "they were going to be able to drive folks away from one of the most expensive areas for the provision of health care, and that is the emergency rooms. In fact, they did just the opposite."

By Louis Jacobson • March 10, 2017
Tom Price
stated on November 30, 2016 in a speech:

"In the last five years only one out of 60 -- one out of 60 -- appropriations bills has been passed on time before the end of the fiscal year."

By Ariella Phillips • December 21, 2016

Charles Schumer
stated on January 3, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:

Says Donald Trump campaigned on not cutting Medicare and Social Security, but his nominee for the Secretary of Health and Human Services, Tom Price, "made his career on cutting Medicare and Medicaid."

By Linda Qiu • January 10, 2017
Campaign for Liberty - Georgia
stated on August 23, 2013 in a flier:

Says U.S. Rep. Tom Price is sending letters both supporting and opposing the "small-business killing Internet Tax Mandate."

By Eric Stirgus • September 9, 2013

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