Tillis and Collins are up for reelection in 2020 in purple states, and Murkowski has been the least sycophantic Republican on major votes (e.g., repeal of Obamacare, confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh).
Voters pressed members of Congress on their plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act, on the still-controversial confirmation of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and even on a low-profile vote to disband an election commission created after 2000.
Liberal groups hope Republicans' failure to repeal Obamacare will inspire Democrats to block the confirmation of President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch.
But Congress waited until after Tillerson's confirmation hearing to include the rule in repeal legislation; Tillerson was not asked about it at the hearing.
Some Republicans complained that the slowdown of Price's confirmation is hampering Republican plans to begin repealing the Affordable Care Act.
The prime minister's confirmation that a future majority Conservative government would repeal Labour's landmark legislation and replace it with a "British Bill of Rights" raised more questions than it answered, campaigners said.
Manchin said that the health-care questions gave him "great concern," while Collins entirely rejected any comparison between her confirmation vote and her vote on the ACA repeal legislation.
But he also voted against Mr. Trump's tax cuts, against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act and, most recently, against the confirmation of Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh.
Among their most challenging tasks: formulating a consensus plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act and shepherding a Supreme Court nominee to confirmation in the face of expected heavy Democratic resistance.
Still, her confirmation process is likely to be fraught, with Republicans, who advocate entirely repealing Obama's healthcare law, determined to punish the president and his party over the flawed rollout of the law.
Yellen began serving as Chair of President Bill Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers in 1997, and publicly endorsed repealing Glass-Steagall's separation between traditional bank lending and riskier securities trading during her Senate confirmation hearing.
