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Politics Feb 11

WATCH: Senate committee votes on Biden’s picks to lead education, labor departments

By Associated Press

Politics Feb 04

WATCH: Labor Secretary nominee Marty Walsh testifies before Senate committee

If the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approves the Walsh nomination, the full Senate will make a final vote in the coming days.

By Associated Press

Politics Jan 08

Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidates U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden take the stage for the tenth Democratic 2020 presidential debate at the Gaillard Center in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. February 25, 2020. REUTERS/Randall Hill
President-elect Joe Biden considered Sen. Bernie Sanders for labor secretary

Biden says that he can’t think of a more “passionate and devoted ally to working people in this country” than Sanders and that Sanders approves of Walsh for the job.

By Associated Press

Politics Sep 26

Eugene Scalia confirmed as Trump’s new labor secretary

The Senate voted Thursday along party lines, 53-44, to approve the nomination.

By Richard Lardner, Associated Press

Politics Sep 19

Eugene Scalia arrives to testify before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions on his nomination to be secretary of Labor on Capitol Hill in Washington, September 19, 2019. Photo by Joshua Roberts/Reuters
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.

Apr 26

Senate nudges Acosta toward confirmation as labor secretary

By Associated Press

The Senate has moved President Donald Trump's pick for labor secretary one step closer to confirmation.

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Mar 30

Alexander Acosta, Trump’s choice for labor secretary, advances to full Senate vote

By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press

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…

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Feb 07

Trump’s pick for labor secretary hired undocumented worker

By Laurie Kellman, Associated Press

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.

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Dec 15

Labor Secretary Tom Perez enters race for DNC chair

By Lisa Lerer, Associated Press

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.

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Dec 08

Watch 3:27
Trump meets with first responders to Ohio State stabbings

By PBS NewsHour

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…

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