President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the U.S. department ofhealth will likely face another round of criticism about his stocktrading and questions about plans to overhaul Obamacare at a crucial Senate committee hearingthat could clear the path for his nomination.

Representative Tom Price, a Georgia Republican, is appearingTuesday before the Senate Finance Committee, the only one thatvotes on whether to send his nomination to the full Senate forconsideration.

At his first hearing last week before the Senate healthcommittee, Price was grilled by Democrats who have called for aninvestigation into his investments in medical stocks while handlinghealth-related legislation. He didn’t provide details on how toreplace Obamacare, a law that expandedcoverage to 20 million people in the U.S. since it was passed in2010.

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