Senate panel backs Tavenner nomination
By HME News Staff
Updated Wed April 24, 2013
WASHINGTON - Marilyn Tavenner, Barack Obama's nominee to oversee CMS, received the unanimous backing of the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday, according an article from Reuters. The panel's support could pave the way for a vote by the full Senate that could make Tavenner the program's first official administrator since 2006. A former hospital company executive and nurse, Tavenner has been CMS's acting administrator since 2011, and has broad bipartisan support. Among Tavenner's supporters is House Majority leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., who introduced her at an April 9 confirmation hearing.
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