Washington-A Senate Committee led by Republicans is holding a confirmation hearing on Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s candidate for the Secretary of Labor, Lori Chavez-Deremer.
“On each role, my priority has been clear: fighting for the US worker and the business that promotes our economy,” he said in his opening comments.
Chávez-Deremer, a former Oregon congressman who fulfilled a mandate, is an unconventional election for a Republican president. She supported a bill called Pro Act, a priority of the unions, and is backed by the Teamsters union.
“Workers need someone with their experience leading the agency that has the task of protecting workers, creating good union jobs and reconstructing the middle class of our nation,” the general president of Tean M. O’Brien, who spoke in The Republican National Convention last year, he said in a statement. “The Teamsters thank President Trump for putting American workers first to the representative Chavez-Deremer to this important role.”
This profile has taken it to Agua Caliente with multiple republicans of the Senate, which firmly oppose the pro law and have realized that Trump’s choice.
“I’m not going to support her,” Senator Rand Paul, Republican from R-KK, said to NBC News at the end of January. “I am the national spokesman and principal author of the draft Law on Labor. His support for the pro law, which would not only be opposed to national law to work, but would avoid state law with the right to work, I think it is not a good thing. “
Chávez-Deremer addressed his participation in the configuration of the law during his opening declaration, saying that the bill provided a way of having conversations about the necessary updates to labor laws.
“I recognize that this bill was not perfect, and I also recognize that I am no longer representing Oregon as legislator,” he said. “If confirmed, my work will be to implement the policy division of President Trump, and my guiding principle will be the governing principle of President Trump, ensuring a leveling playing field for companies, unions and, most importantly, the US worker.”
Paul predicted last month that will lose 15 republican votes. It is in the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee of the Senate, held by Wednesday’s audience. The Republican party has a majority of 11-10 in the panel, which means that if Paul votes against him, Chávez-Deremer would need democratic votes to obtain a favorable vote of the committee.
And for now, the Democrats maintain their dry dust.
Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla.
“She is wonderful,” he said, and added that while Paul is “a non -difficult,” is the only republican in that camp. “You have the right to have your opinion about it. What may not understand is that this is President Trump has grown our party. It has brought the unions. “
“It also made it very clear that the president of the United States is serving the testament, and it is his policies that he will present,” Mullin said Tuesday. “We will not agree on each subject, but you know, my wife and I had been married 27 years, and we still do not agree on each subject. But you can work beyond them and still have a good relationship. “
The Senate Republican leaders have not said if Chávez-Deremer will get a floor vote if she fails in the committee.
Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT., The member of the Help Committee classification, told NBC News last week that he had met with Chávez-Deremer. But he wouldn’t say if he supports her.
Senator Bill Cassidy, Republican of the la-la., Presides over the committee, said the Republicans, including him, find some of his past “problems.” But he said that will not be the decisive factor for him.
“Said this way: he is taking the direction of the president, not from his previous voting history,” Cassidy said recently.
Another issue that may arise at his audience: Chávez-Deremer told the committee that he worked at a Planned Parenthood clinic in the early 20 years, NBC News reported last week.
