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Published 1/9/2009 by Domenico Montanaro at First Read

From NBC's Scott Foster At her Senate confirmation hearing this morning, Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis pledged to focus on protecting the interests of the American worker by improving employee rights and wages and fighting job discrimination. Most members present at the Senate Education and Labor Committee hearing expressed their support for her nomination, while at least one Republican, Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming, seemed frustrated that she didn't fully answer all questions thrown her way. It's clear many pro-business Republicans will not fully agree with a Secretary who is so pro-Labor. Solis, a strong backer of organized labor, said her "vision for the Department of Labor is rooted in who I am." Her father worked as a teamster in a battery recycling plant and her mother was a union factory worker in Nicaragua. ...( read more ) (link)

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