WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s health-secretary nominee got nearly three times as much political money from a controversial abortion doctor as she told senators.
The Health and Human Services Department said Monday that the omission was an oversight Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius would correct.
Sebelius told the Senate Finance Committee that she received $12,450 between 1994 and 2001 from Dr. George Tiller, one of the nation’s few late-term-abortion providers. But records reviewed by The Associated Press show Tiller gave at least $23,000 more from 2000 to 2002 to a political-action committee Sebelius set up while insurance commissioner to raise money for fellow Democrats.
Earlier, she corrected three years’ worth of tax returns and paid more than $7,000 in back taxes.
