GOP May Try To Block Solis Confirmation

[babylonsister]

GOP-ers may block Solis confirmation
By MANU RAJU | 1/16/09 6:18 PM EST


Senate Republicans, frustrated over the answers they say they're not getting from Rep. Hilda L. Solis, may try to block her confirmation as Barack Obama's secretary of labor.

"She answered no questions," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), a member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee. "If she won't answer the questions, how can you support the nomination?"

During the California Democrat's Jan. 9 confirmation hearing, Solis repeatedly told senators that she could not speak for the incoming Obama administration on the card check bill, and she told Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) that she was "not qualified" to speak about maintaining right-to-work laws that prohibit workers from paying union dues as a condition of employment.

"These aren't positions that you're allowed not to have an opinion," Wyoming Sen. Michael Enzi, the ranking Republican on the committee, told Politico. "These are extremely critical things that she was asked about. Each of the people that asked questions from the Republican side asked about different areas of labor law and wondered what she was going to do. And we still don't know."

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/17538.html

[xxqqqzme]

1. is that like questions no rethug nominees would answer

like the current AG on torture - Hmmmmmmm?

[ogneopasno]

2. Y'know, I try to avoid sexist and rude comments, but it's stuff like this story that make me think,

"You know what, Republicans? Suck it. SUCK. IT."

[BlooInBloo]

3. Suck it long, suck it hard.

:rofl:

I heart Sean Connery.

[ogneopasno]

5. Reminds me of the "tell me how my ass tastes" rap from Shaq.

Nasty, and yet somehow compelling. And a nice nod to the Democratic donkey. Indeed, GOP, tell us how the ass tastes now!

[neverforget]

4. Sen Tom Coburn: how does that Tomnibus Bill feel shoved up your

ass?

[Jane Austin]

6. I see the Pubs are going to work hard

to get the Hispanic vote back from the Dems.

:sarcasm:

[The Magistrate]

7. They Can Try, Ma'am, But they will fail

[GreenTea]

8. She's the best nominee by far bar none by Obama-for the workers of course the republicans

want to block her!

[lonestarnot]

9. Let them. Squash them like bugs!

I'm sure they have shitty shorts over this one! GO UNIONS!

[Occam Bandage]

10. "We don't know what she's going to do." No, you know damn well what she's going to do.

And it's got you running scared. Suck it, bitches, because labor's back in town.