Perez, 51, has led the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division since 2009 and previously served as Maryland's labor secretary.
"The model in people's heads right now is extortion, " Robert Reich, President Clinton's former labor secretary, tells me.
Because of the issue, Perez's confirmation hearings for Labor Secretary have been postponed.
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As the 25th U.S. Secretary of Labor-the first Latina to ever hold the position-it is my honor to serve in his administration.
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The request came in a June 20 letter from the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association to U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao and Bradley Belt , executive director of the Pension Benefit Guarantee Corp.
General Provisions. (a) The heads of executive departments and agencies shall assist and provide information to the Secretary of Labor or the Secretary's designee, consistent with applicable law, as may be necessary to carry out the responsibilities assigned by this order.
He's a former assistant secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton and now a professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Charles Grassley of Iowa said Tuesday that Perez's involvement should disqualify him to become Labor Secretary.
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Perez, now the U.S. assistant attorney general heading the Justice Department's civil rights division, will be nominated to be the next secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, a Democratic source said.
And Bernard Anderson is professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and former assistant secretary of Labor under the Clinton administration.
The White House Council on Automotive Communities and Workers, which is expected to come into being through an executive order on Tuesday, will be chaired by Larry Summers, the President's chief economic advisor, as well as Labor Secretary Hilda Solis.
The White House says it hopes to work out Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott's latest concerns involving the confirmation of Alexis Herman as Labor secretary.
In 1965 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, then assistant secretary of Labor and later a U.S. senator, authored The Moynihan Report to bring light to the economic and social breakdown of the black family.
White House sources told CNN that Yene's allegations had been reviewed by Senate investigators prior to her confirmation as labor secretary in May 1997 -- and that they were found not to be credible.
"With Solis at the helm, we're absolutely confident that the Department of Labor will return to its primary mission of looking out for the health and welfare of America's workers, " said Art Pulaski, executive secretary-treasurer of the California Labor Federation.
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