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Showing the Latest U.S. Senate Health Education Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee Results
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Throwing Working Families Under the Bus, Senate Confirms Trump’s 2nd Choice to Head Labor Dept.
Acosta is a scandal riddled figure best known for his mismanagement during the Bush administration.
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Workers Take a Back Seat as Acosta Drives Toward Confirmation Following Committee Vote
“Today’s vote was yet another example of lawmakers ignoring a Trump nominee’s glaring deficiencies and instead marching with the President in lockstep as he hands important economic posts in our government over to those who are more interested in pleasing Wall Street insiders and powerful special interests than the hard-working Americans who built this country.”
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Employment Law Daily: Acosta Facing Tough Questions at Nomination Hearing
Most commenters expect Acosta to be confirmed. However, that does not me the nominee will not face some tough questioning. On the day of the hearing, Allied Progress released a report supporting the nationwide progressive advocacy organization’s characterization of Acosta’s record as “one of scandal, mismanagement, and a callous disregard for the concerns of American workers.”
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Trump Labor Nominee Defends Sweetheart Plea Deal in Billionaire’s Sex Case Involving Underage Girls
Alex Acosta defended the sweetheart plea deal as a “point of pride.”
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Labor Nominee Acosta’s Record Exposed: Scandal, Mismanagement, Callous Disregard for Concerns of Hard-Working Americans
Acosta’s record was exposed as one of scandal, mismanagement, and a callous disregard for the concerns of American workers.
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U.S. News & World Report: Alexander Acosta Still an Unknown Walking Into Labor Confirmation
“Anyone willing to look beyond Mr. Acosta’s Wikipedia page would see that he is a controversial figure whose mismanagement of the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division led to scandal and a years-long investigation,” Karl Frisch, executive director of progressive advocacy group Allied Progress, said in a statement last month. “Simply put: the last time Alexander Acosta managed a division of a federal agency, it ended in scandal and now President Trump wants him to manage an entire federal agency.”
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Politico’s Morning Money: Donovan Gets Treasury Gig, Left Reacts
Allied Progress’s Karl Frisch: “President Trump should give candidate Trump a call if he’s going to keep bringing Goldman Sachs executives into his administration. By handing over our economy to Goldman Sachs, Trump continues to betray working class Americans who took him at his word when he promised to ‘drain the swamp.’”
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Pensions & Investments: SEC, DOL Nominees Disclose Holdings
Mr. Clayton’s professional connections with Wall Street prompted several progressive groups, including Public Citizen and Allied Progress, to oppose his nomination and to ask members of the Senate Banking Committee — who will consider his confirmation March 23 — to demand a more comprehensive list of all current and former clients, both domestic and international.
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Senate Confirms Billionaire Wilbur Ross for Commerce Post Despite Shady Russian Ties
Trump’s new Commerce Secretary linked to Russian-tied bank known for money laundering and illicit activities.
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Legal Reader: Trump Nominates Alexander Acosta as Labor Secretary
The accusations which have been leveled against Acosta by groups such as Allied Progress are tame in contrast. Spokesman Karl Frisch damned the Miami native as “wholly unqualified.”