thehill.com - 1/9/2009
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A dour jobs report and the influence organized labor will have with the Obama administration dominated the confirmation hearing of Rep. Hilda Solis (D-Calif.) as Labor secretary. Democratic lawmakers seized on a new report released Friday stating that more than 524,000 jobs had been lost in ...
digbysblog.blogspot.com - 1/7/2009
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Wednesday, January 07, 2009 Netroots Grows Up by
digby More good news on the progressive front: A
group of progressive operatives from MoveOn and labor circles have teamed with a prominent Internet pioneer to try to give the Sam Bennetts of the world ...
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obamanoms.com - 1/8/2009
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Tracking Executive & Judicial Nominations Eric Holder pushed
for controversial clemency L.A. Times Eric Holder Secrets of
Solis Wall Street Journal Hilda Solis Key Questions for Senator Tom Daschle, Nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services ...
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huffingtonpost.com - 1/10/2009
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Congresswoman Hilda Solis is a strong champion of
working families and will be an outstanding Secretary of
Labor. Given our enormous economic challenges facing our nation, I urge the Senate to take swift action and confirm her nomination. ...
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Rep. George Miller: Senate Should Quickly Confirm Rep. ...
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Political Animal —
... both the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and Paycheck Fairness Act today. * Hilda Solis' confirmation hearings for the Department of Labor began today . Apparently, Republicans don't care for EFCA. What a surprise. * The ...
New Labor Sec Claims SHE Can ‘Create’ Jobs?
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... The Hill is reporting that Obama’s newly minted Labor Secretary was “pressed” on the job losses recently reported by the federal government. Oddly enough, Rep. Hilda Solis (D, CA) imagines she is somehow imbued with the ability to create jobs. ...
New Labor Sec Claims SHE Can ‘Create’ Jobs?
Stop The ACLU —
-By Warner Todd Huston The Hill is reporting that Obama’s newly minted Labor Secretary was “pressed” on the job losses recently reported by the federal government. Oddly enough, Rep. Hilda Solis (D, CA) imagines she is somehow imbued with the ability to create jobs. Lawmakers quizzed Solis as to how she could best reverse the jobs decline for a number of sectors in the economy, from healthcare workers to those afflicted with disabilities. One solution the California congresswoman recommended was focusing on creating new “green-collar” jobs. That could include retrofitting ...
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dailykos.com 12/22/2008 — If Hilda Solis is confirmed as Secretary of Labor early next year, as seems all but certain, the special election to fill her congressional seat likely will pit long-time rivals against each other. The outcome of that contest is not so certain. But ...
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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 ...
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