Rep. Tom Price has emerged as a top contender for the job of Health and Human Services Secretary, or HHS, in the Trump Administration. He’s a Republican member of the House of Representatives, a doctor, and a staunch opponent of ObamaCare, LGBTQ and women’s reproductive rights who has consistently associated himself with homophobes and antigay agitators.
Monday he hailed a new bill passed by the House that will attempt to limit President Obama’s power to write executive orders.
Rep. Price received a 0% rating from the Human Rights Campaign (that’s not good, btw) but he was rated 100% by the National Right to Life Committee for his “pro-life stance.” A check of his record on the “On the Issues” website also revealed:
- Voted NO on reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act. (Feb 2013)
- Voted NO on prohibiting job discrimination based on sexual orientation. (Nov 2007)
- Voted NO on enforcing against anti-gay hate crimes. (Apr 2009)
- Voted NO on enforcing limits on CO2 global warming pollution. (Jun 2009)
- Voted NO on four weeks of paid parental leave for federal employees. (Jun 2009)
- Voted NO on protecting whistleblowers from employer recrimination. (Mar 2007)
- Voted YES on requiring photo ID for voting in federal elections. (Sep 2006)
- Voted NO on regulating tobacco as a drug. (Apr 2009)
- Voted NO on expanding the Children’s Health Insurance Program. (Jan 2009)
- Voted YES on overriding veto on expansion of Medicare. (Jul 2008)
- Voted NO on giving mental health full equity with physical health. (Mar 2008)
- Voted NO on Veto override: Extend SCHIP to cover 6M more kids. (Jan 2008)
- Voted NO on adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility. (Oct 2007)
- Voted NO on requiring negotiated Rx prices for Medicare part D. (Jan 2007)
- Voted YES on denying non-emergency treatment for lack of Medicare co-pay. (Feb 2006)
- Deauthorize funding for Obamacare. (Jul 2010)
- Repeal the Job-Killing Health Care Law. (Jan 2011)
According to NewNowNext he supports a constitutional amendment to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges by redefining marriage as between one man and one woman.
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The website also noted Price called laws protecting reproductive and LGBT rights “a huge cost-driver” to Georgia’s budget.
“The consequences of activity that has been seen as outside the norm are real and must be explored completely… [before] moving forward with any social legislation that would alter things.”
Price is 62, and an orthopaedic surgeon. On a radio show run by a Tea Party group last year, he reportedly told Rabbi Noson Leiter that laws that “promote some homosexual-agenda item… should take into account the tremendous medical health impact and economic impact that promoting such a lifestyle will result in.” Leiter in turn blamed Hurricane Sandy on marriage equality.
The congressman added that “tried-and-true traditions in history that made us great have survived because they are effective.”
And as for ObamaCare, Price himself introduced a bill this past May, H.R. 2300, the Empowering Patients First Act. According to his news release, his proposed legislation “fully repeals Obamacare and starts over with patient-centered solutions,” including “individual health pools and expanded health savings accounts, tax credits for the purchase of coverage and lawsuit abuse reforms to reduce the costly practice of defensive medicine.”