With the new environment minister on the back foot, the opposition moved later in the day to suspend the standing orders in order to move a motion in the House blasting Price for misleading the parliament.
Democrats have blasted Price's use of private jets — some with plush leather chairs, kitchens and other amenities — as hypocritical at a time when he has sought deep budget cuts at the National Institutes of Health and a repeal of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
Democrats on Wednesday blasted Price in response to the Politico story.
After being blasted for price hikes on its lifesaving EpiPen allergy injections, the drugmaker Mylan announced Thursday that it will expand access to the product — not by lowering the price, but by creating a savings card that will cover up to $300 of its EpiPen 2-Pak.
Apple Legend Woz Blasts iPhone Price Drop And Refund Policy [Channel Web Network].
Allowing speculators to buy C.D.S.'s merely to bet against a firm in difficulty just blasts the prices of bonds, kills the balance sheets of banks, insurers and hedge funds, and throws fear into the system.
The oil and gas giant, which revealed plans for a corporate reorganization earlier this month, announced Thursday it will pay $373 million in order to settle an oil spill, a deadly blast, and propane price manipulation.
Disneyland fans blast annual-pass price hike as greedy.
Price blasted private jet travel by members of Congress.
Parents doing back-to-school preparations encountered sticker shock at pharmacy counters this month and began protesting to politicians and on social media, leading to an uproar in an election year when drug prices already are a hot issue and other drugmakers have been blasted for astronomical price increases.
Mark Vitner, senior economist at Wachovia Securities in Charlotte, N.C., said that "it may be the last blast of really large price increases," noting that crude oil prices have come down in recent weeks and that other commodity prices, including lumber, have been softening.
