action.seiu.org - 2/6/2009
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Tell the Senate: Confirm Hilda Solis as Secretary of Labor More than 10,000 people have called for Hilda Solis to be confirmed as our next Secretary of Labor. Watch this video to find out who Hilda Solis is, then sign the petition to the right calling for her nomination. We're delivering the ...
facebook.com - 2/6/2009
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Description: The country is in the midst of a...
massive economic crisis, and working families are feeling the pain. Yet Republicans are playing political games with Hilda Solis’ ...
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Confirm Hilda Solis NOW!
dcexaminer.com - 2/5/2009
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EXAMINER EDITORIAL HOT ZONE ALERT: - 2/5/09 Rep.
Hilda Solis, D-CA, should be asked in her Senate...
confirmation process as President Barack Obama's nominee for Secretary of Labor to explain why she approved funds to pay for congressional lobbying by a ...
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Senators should ask Solis why she approved campaign ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 2/6/2009
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The Senate labor committee has postponed its vote
on Hilda Solis' nomination to become Labor Secretary, with...
no clear date set to reconsider her confirmation. Solis has been put through the wringer by Republicans aiming to slow up the Employee ...
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Solis Vote Postponed After Husband's Tax Liens Revealed
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It’s Long Past Time: Confirm Hilda Solis [ACTION]
Firedoglake —
... Barack Obama's Labor Department needs a leader now. It's time to end the delaying tactics. It's time to put an end the same old conservative GOP games. The obstruction must stop.
Did the GOP really think that Barack Obama would choose an anti-labor Labor Secretary? We've had eight years of that. American working people deserve better.
And we deserve it right now. Hilda Solis must be confirmed.
Stand up for Hilda Solis.
You can tell the Senate to act right here.
A pro-labor Secretary of Labor. Now, that's audacity.
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
... Hilda Solis is exactly the right type of person to do this work. As the daughter of two immigrant workers and proud union members, Hilda Solis is the embodiment of the American Dream. Solis is an experienced leader who has been an advocate for the middle class and working families throughout her entire career. She has consistently supported efforts to increase the minimum wage and to increase unemployment benefits. Lastly, Solis authored the "Green Collar Jobs Act of 2007" which gives her a unique perspective on how to make the new jobs created in the Economic Recovery Plan the ...
Solis Gets a Vote Today
TPM Election Central —
... Last night, it seemed as though the Solis nomination would get put off until after recess. It looks like there will be a Solis vote today, a labor source emails me. This comes just in time as the Service Employees International Union along with Latino, environmental and other groups will drop more than 10,000 petitions at the committee's door to advocate for Solis's confirmation. Not surprisingly they have a video along with the petition that you can see here. ...
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Senate Confirms Hilda Solis as Labor Secretary
blog.aflcio.org 2/24/2009 —
Hilda Solis is the new secretary of labor. After Republicans backed away from an expected filibuster and agreed to stop their weeks of delaying tactics, the Senate this afternoon approved Solis’s nomination by ...
Congratulations, Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis!
seiu.org 2/24/2009 — Great news comes out of the Senate, where Hilda Solis was just confirmed as President Obama's Secretary of Labor. "For Secretary Solis this is not just another job, but the culmination of a lifetime of action serving as a voice for people who work," ...
Hilda Solis to Labor
washingtonmonthly.com 12/18/2008 — HILDA SOLIS TO LABOR.... Various names have been rumored, but it appears that our next Labor Secretary will be Rep. Hilda Solis. A labor official says Rep. Hilda Solis of California will be nominated as labor secretary by President-elect Barack...
HILDA SOLIS FOR SECRETARY OF LABOR.
prospect.org 12/19/2008 — Word is that Congresswoman Hilda Solis is to be named Labor Secretary. I'd write a long post on this, and maybe I will later, but I think most of what I'd say is better expressed by the fact that Harold Meyerson just ran into my office doing ...
Hilda Solis to Labor
openleft.com 12/18/2008 —
I did some interviews with the Labor Secretary to be a few, Hilda Solis, in August of 2007. The video above is a discussion of the Progressive Caucus (forgive the shitty editing, I was experimenting). Here's the other video I took, ...
Labor To Fight Back On Solis
politics.theatlantic.com 2/6/2009 — For organized labor, enough's enough. The nomination of Hilda Solis is languishing in the Senate, with Republican protesting Solis's past association with labor groups and Democrats wondering about the tax problems her husband recently solved. ...
The case against Hilda Solis is a war against labor
buzzflash.com 2/11/2009 —
AN ONGOING BUZZFLASH SERIES ON THE GOP ECONOMIC WAR AGAINST AMERICAN WORKING FAMILIES by Meg White In the overarching story of the Obama Administration's nominees for cabinet posts, there have been a lot of characters. You've got ...
Solis Gets A Vote?
politics.theatlantic.com 2/11/2009 — Organized labor had been told not to expect a vote on the confirmation of Rep. Hilda Solis to be Labor Secretary until after a brief Congressional recess. Now, labor's being told that Solis's vote will take place tomorrow at 2:00 pm. A ...
Senate Committee Approves Solis as Labor Secretary
blog.aflcio.org 2/11/2009 — One week after postponing a confirmation vote on Hilda Soli as secretary of labor, the Senate Health Education, Labor and Pensions Committee today approved on a voice vote President’s Obama’s choice to lead the Labor Department and sent ...
First 100 Days: Labor pains? —
First Read 2/6/2009
"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 ...
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