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Senate nears approval of Labor Department chief
By: The Associated Press//July 18, 2013
WASHINGTON — The Senate moved toward approval Thursday of President Barack Obama’s choice to head the Labor Department after lawmakers, by the thinnest of margins, honored a bipartisan pact and removed procedural obstacles that had been blocking the nomination.
The chamber was expected to confirm Thomas Perez as labor secretary by a near party-line roll call. After that, lawmakers were scheduled to debate Obama’s selection of Gina McCarthy to become administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Perez, 51, is the son of Dominican immigrants who worked once as a trash collector and now leads the Justice Department’s civil rights division. He was praised Thursday by Democrats.
“He has spent his career fighting for working families, protecting our important civil rights laws and turning around troubled agencies,” said Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
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