{"id":1412752,"date":"2022-03-31T11:44:42","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412752"},"modified":"2022-03-31T11:45:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T15:45:21","slug":"bidens-labor-department-nominee-just-had-his-nomination-blocked-thanks-to-3-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-labor-department-nominee-just-had-his-nomination-blocked-thanks-to-3-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden\u2019s Labor Department Nominee Just Had His Nomination Blocked Thanks To 3 Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbidens-labor-department-nominee-just-had-his-nomination-blocked-thanks-to-3-democrats%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1412752&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Three Democratic senators joined Republicans on Wednesday to kill the nomination of David Weil to head the Labor Department\u2019s Wage and Hour Division, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>In a final vote of 47-53, the Senate chose not to move forward with considering Weil\u2019s nomination after intense criticism from Republicans over his tenure in the Obama administration, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/03\/30\/david-weil-wage-hour-nom-senate-00021860\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. Arizona Sens. Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelly, along with West Virginia Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/29\/joe-manchin-flames-republicans-ketanji-brown-jackson-hearings\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Manchin<\/a>, were the only Democrats to vote against Weil.<\/p>\n<p>Opponents went after Weil for policy choices surrounding independent contractor classification, joint employment designations and overtime pay, Politico reported. The vote makes Weil the first <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/15\/sarah-bloom-raskin-federal-reserve-climate-change-joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden nominee<\/a> to fail on the Senate floor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs she promised Arizonans, Kyrsten evaluates all nominees based on three criteria: whether or not they are professionally qualified, believe in the missions of their agencies, and can be trusted to faithfully execute and uphold the law,\u201d a spokesperson for <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/16\/report-sinema-moderate-dems-hiding-partys-left-wing-skirt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sinema<\/a> said of the senator\u2019s vote, CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/03\/31\/politics\/sinema-manchin-kelly-democratic-senators-republicans-david-weil\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7401385\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7401385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ) speaks during a United States Senate Committee on Finance hearing to consider Chris Magnus\u2019s nomination to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection on October 19, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Rod Lamkey-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cUpon reviewing Mr. Weil\u2019s nomination, she has concerns with his ability to faithfully execute and uphold the law,\u201d the spokesperson said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/31\/basically-cops-julie-su-joe-biden-labor-department-california-armed-police-force-criminal-investigation-unit-wage-theft\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: \u2018Basically Cops\u2019: Biden Labor Nominee Created An Armed Police Force To Prosecute Wage Theft In California)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The International Franchise Association (IFA) was one of the business groups to lobby against Weil\u2019s nomination. The group thanked Republicans and the three Democratic senators for standing \u201cup for local franchise businesses and workers across the country\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/3012072-business-lobby-defeats-biden-labor-nominee-in-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statement<\/a> to The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Democratic Washington Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee, called Weil \u201can exceptionally qualified nominee\u201d and lamented that he would not have the opportunity to move forward, CNN reported. She said Weil had a long track record of \u201cfighting to ensure workers get the wages they have earned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Democratic senators joined Republicans on Wednesday to kill the nomination of David Weil to head the Labor Department\u2019s Wage and Hour Division, Politico reported.In a final vote of 47-53,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1412752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}