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Republicans want Labor nominee to stop lobbying for 'card check' bill - Los Angeles Times
latimes.com - 2/5/2009
Republicans want Labor nominee to stop lobbying for 'card check' bill - Los Angeles Times
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In a written exchange with Solis, Republican senators indicated they are wary of her ties to a tax-exempt group dedicated to helping workers unionize. Solis is treasurer of the organization, American Rights at Work . Federal records show that the group lobbied Congress last year to pass the ...
Husband of Rep. Solis, Labor nominee, settles tax liens
usatoday.com - 2/5/2009
Husband of Rep. Solis, Labor nominee, settles tax liens
— usatoday.com — The disclosure came shortly before a scheduled 2 p.m. meeting of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and... Pensions Committee, which will vote on Rep. Hilda Solis' nomination as labor secretary. The hearing was postponed; no reason was immediately ... (more) Husband of Rep. Solis, Labor nominee, settles tax liens

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latimes.com - 1/30/2009
Labor nominee Hilda Solis hits GOP roadblock - Los Angeles Times
— latimes.com — Eric H. Holder Jr., tapped to be attorney general, is likely to be confirmed by the Senate... on Monday. Tom Daschle, a former Senate majority leader, is expected to win confirmation as Health and Human Services secretary. The Senate Finance Committee's ... (more) Labor nominee Hilda Solis hits GOP roadblock - Los ...

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politics.theatlantic.com - 2/5/2009
Solis Won't Recuse Herself From Card Check
— politics.theatlantic.com — As a Senate committee plans an initial vote on Rep. Hilda Solis's confirmation as Labor Secretary today,... Solis is promising to recuse herself from dealing with matters related to American Rights At Work, a labor pressure group on whose board she ... (more) Solis Won't Recuse Herself From Card Check

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TPM Election Central:  Messing with Hilda Solis

Baseball Crank:  POLITICS: Entrenching Begins

AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth:  Republicans don't want Obama's Labor Secretary to work on key labor issue, but Bush's Labor Secretary (Mitch McConnell's wife) could fight it

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Messing with Hilda Solis
TPM Election Central — ... The Republicans are really using the Solis nomination to fight the Employee Free Choice Act. Today's Los Angeles Times notes that Republicans now want Solis to avoid lobbying for the bill even after she becomes Labor Secretary which is like asking Tim Geithner to stay neutral about the stimulus package or Robert Gates to take a pass on Afghanistan funding. Of course when Elaine Chao was labor secretary under George W. Bush they had no problems with her advocating for the defeat of EFCA. See her Wall Street Journal op-ed ...

POLITICS: Entrenching Begins
Baseball Crank — ... , and Obama's appointee for Labor Secretary is tied to lobbyists for the bill. And this is before we get into all of the payoffs to liberal interest groups in the inaptly named "stimulus" bill. ...

Republicans don't want Obama's Labor Secretary to work on key labor issue, but Bush's Labor Secretary (Mitch McConnell's wife) could fight it
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... Of course, there were no similar restrictions applied to Secretary of Labor for George Bush, Elaine Chao, who was the wife of GOP Senate Leader, Mitch McConnell, when she was working against the interests of working men and women. If the Republicans get their way, Hilda Solis would be prevented from working on pro-worker policy, particularly the Employee Free Choice Act: ...

Solis' Husband Has Tax Problem
TalkLeft — ... Before her husband's tax problems surfaced, Republican members of the committee were concerned about Solis' "role on the board of the pro-labor organization American Rights at Work." A Labor Secretary who sat on the board of a pro-labor organization? Shocking! ...

Labor To Open Fire Over Solis Confirmation
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... Previous to her husband's tax gaffe, Solis withstood criticism from Republicans who insisted that her work at American Rights at Work, a union ally, was tantamount to being a lobbyist for EFCA. That this would be grounds for slowing her nomination seemed overtly partisan. But such is the politics that Employee Free Choice engenders. Now, however, it seems things are going to grow even more heated. ...

Labor To Open Fire Over Solis Confirmation
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Previous to her husband's tax gaffe, Solis withstood criticism from Republicans who insisted that her work at American Rights at Work, a union ally, was tantamount to being a lobbyist for EFCA. That this would be grounds for slowing her nomination seemed overtly partisan. But such is the politics that Employee Free Choice engenders. Now, however, it seems things are going to grow even more heated. ...

2/6: Stimulus Wars
Blogometer — ... that Solis's husband had failed to pay $6,400 in business taxes: Conservative bloggers, on the other hand, are making hay of Solis's husband's tax issues: SOLIS II: A Labor Secretary Who Supports Labor? Liberal bloggers believe that Senate GOPers are trying to hold up Holis's nomination because of her support of organized labor : THOUGHT OF THE DAY: A Majority Party With A Minority Mindset Conservative blogger ...

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Bloomberg - Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- A Senate committee put off its vote on Representative Hilda Solis’s nomination as labor secretary, one day after her husband paid to settle tax liens.