The Senate confirmed Scott Gottlieb as FDA commissioner Tuesday, thrusting the conservative drug industry insider into the heated debate over rising drug costs that President Donald Trump has pledged to address.

Gottlieb, a former FDA and CMS official in the George W. Bush administration, sailed through confirmation on a 57-42 vote. He’ll lead a 15,000 person, $5 billion agency that approves drugs, vaccines, medical devices and regulates tobacco, cosmetics and food.

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