By CONGRESSDAILY STAFF
The Senate Finance Committee is not likely to consider the nomination of Kansas Democratic Gov. Kathleen Sebelius to be HHS secretary before for the two-week spring recess.
The committee typically does not take a vote on a nominee until questions senators submit in writing are answered.
Given that Sebelius went before the committee Thursday, it is unlikely she will answer all those questions by today, according to a Republican committee aide. Finance ranking member Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, alone submitted 79 questions.
Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mt., had hoped to send her nomination to the full Senate for a vote before senators left town.
President Obama's first choice for HHS secretary, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., took himself out of the running in February amid tax problems. Sebelius has tax troubles as well, albeit on a much smaller scale, and they do not seem to be affecting her nomination.
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