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Labor To Open Fire Over Solis Confirmation

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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The country's largest labor and Hispanic groups are ratcheting up the confirmation fight over Labor Secretary nominee Hilda Solis, preparing a full-ou...

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Solis Vote Delayed: Labor Nominee Stalled As Husband Settles Taxes

The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

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The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee was supposed to vote on Hilda Solis, President Obama's nominee for Labor Secretary, on Thur...

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Committee Set To Vote On GOP-Blocked Labor Nominee Thursday

Talking Points Memo | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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President Obama's Labor Secretary nominee, former Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA), will get her long-awaited confirmation vote in the Senate labor committee t...

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Capital Strike?

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics

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Joseph A. Palermo

The day will come when Obama will have no choice but to remind the giant corporations through tough government action that the U.S. is not just another one of their wholly owned subsidiaries.

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President Obama Wants You to Join the Union

Robert Kuttner | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

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Robert Kuttner

On Friday, President Obama, a onetime organizer, had more words to say about unions, and they were the kind of explicit endorsement that we literally haven't heard from a president since FDR's day.

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A Labor Secretary Who is Actually Pro-Union

Jonah Lalas | Posted 03.02.2009 | Politics

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Jonah Lalas

Once the employer realizes his/her employees are willing to stand up for better pay, more affordable healthcare, and better working conditions by forming a union, they begin to fight.

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Obama To Host Labor Leaders While Issuing Executive Orders

Plum Line | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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The Obama administration has notified leading labor officials that it will host them at the White House tomorrow at an event where President Obama pla...

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Kucinich Leads Trend for Even Handed Foreign Policy

Michael Carmichael | Posted 02.27.2009 | Politics

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Michael Carmichael

According to astute observers -- there is a new trend in Congress in favor of a more even-handed approach to foreign policy. The bipartisan group, Co...

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Some GOP Senators Still Believe They Are Right On Labor. Solis Must Be Confirmed

Mario Solis-Marich | Posted 02.25.2009 | Politics

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Mario Solis-Marich

What gives some in the GOP the real jitters though is not the message as much as the messenger. Solis wears her working class roots on her blue collared shirt sleeve.

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GOP Blocks Obama's Labor Nominee, Pushes Big Lie on "Card Check"

Art Levine | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

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Art Levine

GOP leaders appear to be willing to play "chicken" with the nation's troubled economy by holding up the vote on the Obama's choice for Secretary of Labor, the pro-worker Hilda Solis.

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Obama's Labor Secretary Stalled By Fierce GOP Resistance

Las Vegas Sun | Posted 02.23.2009 | Politics

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President Barack Obama's nominee for Labor secretary is running into fierce resistance from Republicans over her reluctance to state her views clearly...

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Elect Paul for Azusa City Council!

Michelle Bart | Posted 02.21.2009 | Politics

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Michelle Bart

Lets change local government too!

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A Secretary of Labor for Workers

James P. Hoffa | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Immigrant Rights, Minimum Wage, Workers, Hilda Solis, Senator Ted Kennedy, Obama's Cabinet, Department of Labor, Secretary of Labor, Obama, Teamsters, California, Politics News
James P. Hoffa

In 2005, California Congresswoman Hilda Solis contributed $15,000 of her own campaign money to fund a successful movement to raise the minimum wage in California.

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A New Day For Gun Violence Prevention

Paul Helmke | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Paul Helmke

Last year at this time, I said that America was turning a corner on the gun issue, and the watershed events of 2008 confirmed that prediction. The pa...

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Senate Should Quickly Confirm Rep. Solis as Next Secretary of Labor

Rep. George Miller | Posted 02.09.2009 | Politics

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Rep. George Miller

Our nation's workers demand a Labor Secretary who understands the everyday struggles Americans are facing. Hilda Solis is the right person for the job.

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Phasing Out of Transition and Into the Book Business

Mike Lux | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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Mike Lux

Leaving transition work, I find myself a lot more hopeful about generally progressive policy coming out of the Obama administration than some of my friends in the progressive blogosphere.

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The Danger of Green Stimulus

Jesse Jenkins | Posted 02.05.2009 | Green

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Jesse Jenkins

With green jobs now positioned as "the solution" to both the economy and the climate, Obama has cover to take the politically expedient route of short-term green stimulus while ignoring serious climate policy.

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Detractors of Hillary (DOH!)

John Feffer | Posted 01.23.2009 | Politics

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John Feffer

If Secretary of State Clinton does nothing except push costly military solutions, then her cabinet appointment may turn out to be Obama's biggest "doh!" so far.

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Obama Has Good Taste in Women: Take a Look at His Cabinet

C. Nicole Mason | Posted 01.22.2009 | Politics

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C. Nicole Mason

President-Elect Barack Obama is on track to nominate the most women to his cabinet than any other U.S. President in history. While President Bush had...

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Solis' History of Fighting for Workers

Elana Levin | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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Elana Levin

Some of my colleagues have worked with her for decades. She has a deep and personal connection with working Americans that stems from decades working to help workers get their rights.

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Hilda Solis: A Profile In Courage

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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Sen. Edward M. Kennedy

Hilda Solis has the ability and dedication to overcome the entrenched opposition of special interest groups and to make change happen.

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Mr. Obama Disagrees

Paul Jenkins | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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Paul Jenkins

Obama's choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration is dreadful. His explanation is even worse. He shrinks Warren's statements about gay people down to a "disagreement," as if we're talking about ethanol subsidies.

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Hilda Solis: Get Excited

The Media Consortium | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics

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The Media Consortium

Obama named Rep. Hilda Solis as the next administration's Secretary of Labor this morning and to put it simply, progressives are ecstatic about the pick.

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New Labor Secretary is Brown and Green

Van Jones | Posted 01.18.2009 | Green

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Van Jones

Solis is the right secretary of labor to take advantage of a great opportunity not only to make America's economy stronger by making it greener, but also to make Americans living in poverty part of a revitalized middle class.

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HILDA SOLIS: Labor Secretary (VIDEO)

AP | JESSE J. HOLLAND | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

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AP: Democratic Rep. Hilda Solis of California will be Barack Obama's pick for labor secretary as the president-elect fills the last open positions in ...

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