Senate votes to confirm U.S. President Donald Trump's picks for health and treasury secretary are being indefinitely postponed after Democrats on Tuesday boycotted the meeting. They said they were demanding more information about the two nominees, Georgia Representative Tom Price to head Health and Human Services and financier Steve Mnuchin to lead the Treasury Department. The Democrats cited separate newspaper reports about Price's trading in a health company stock and Mnuchin's behaviour involving foreclosures when he was a banker. At another committee, lawmakers voted to send Trump's pick to head the Education Department, Betsy DeVos, to the full Senate for a vote. The Senate Judiciary Committee also worked toward a vote on Senator Jeff Sessions' nomination to be attorney general.

Source: CBC News January 31, 2017 16:56 UTC