HHS nomination
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
President Bush is nominating HHS General Counsel Alex Azar to serve as the department's deputy secretary. Azar will need to be confirmed by the Senate in order to assume the new role. He was previously approved by the chamber before becoming general counsel. Azar was a partner at Wiley, Rein & Fielding prior to joining the Bush Administration; he also clerked for Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. Azar would fill the vacancy left by former Deputy Secretary Claude Allen, who moved to the White House as a domestic policy advisor near the beginning of Bush's second term...