WATCH: Labor nominee Scalia testifies at confirmation hearing
The Republican GOP-led Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee panel has set a vote on the nomination early next week.
Senate nudges Acosta toward confirmation as labor secretary
The Senate has moved President Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary one step closer to confirmation.
Alexander Acosta, Trump’s choice for labor secretary, advances to full Senate vote
Florida law school dean Alexander Acosta has moved a step closer to becoming President Donald Trump's secretary of labor. A Senate panel on Thursday voted along party lines, 12-11, to advance Acosta's nomination to all 100 members of the chamber…
Trump’s pick for labor secretary hired undocumented worker
Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder acknowledged Tuesday that he had employed an undocumented worker as a housekeeper, putting him again at odds with President Donald Trump's push to keep jobs in American hands.
Labor Secretary Tom Perez announced his bid to head the Democratic National Committee, casting himself as the candidate best able to speak to "the big tent" of a decimated and dispirited Democratic Party.
President-elect Donald Trump left New York on Thursday and flew to Columbus, Ohio, to meet with first responders to last week’s stabbings at Ohio State University. Meanwhile, he formally announced Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma's attorney general and a critic of climate-change…
What's at stake for the U.S. as Americans struggle to climb the economic ladder?…
'Inequality is bad for everyone': Robert Reich fights against economic imbalance…
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