U.S. senators give Burwell’s health secretary bid a cordial hearing

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U.S. President Obama listens after nominating Director of the Office of Management and Budget Burwell to replace outgoing Health Secretary Sebelius, during a ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White HouseBy David Morgan and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Sylvia Mathews Burwell, President Barack Obama's nominee for U.S. health secretary, moved closer to confirmation on Wednesday with a final Senate hearing that was marked more by bipartisan accolades than tough questions about Obamacare. Burwell, Obama's widely respected budget director, discussed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in terms that sometimes seemed calculated to appeal to Republicans. But if we can have conversations and those conversations can be specific, I think we can work to figure most things out,\" she told the Senate Finance Committee that will decide whether to send her nomination on for a final vote in the Senate. Republicans have made Obamacare their leading campaign issue in November's election battle for control of the Senate.

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