First 100 Days: Labor pains?

"The confirmation of another Cabinet member stalled Thursday because of unpaid taxes after USA TODAY disclosed that the husband of Labor secretary nominee Hilda Solis paid about $6,400 this week to settle numerous tax liens against his business dating to 1993. Solis and her husband, Sam Sayyad, were unaware of liens against his auto repair shop until USA TODAY asked about them Tuesday." White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said at the White House briefing yesterday that he didn't think this should hold up Solis' confirmation because the lien was against Solis' husband's business, with which she has no affiliation. However, the country's “largest labor and Hispanic groups are ratcheting up the confirmation fight over Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis, preparing a full-out political and media blitz to get the California Democrat approved and into the Obama cabinet,” the Huffington Post reports. ‘Enough is enough, the gloves are coming off on Friday,’ said one official with the AFL-CIO, ... (link)