A pair of nominees for leadership roles at the U.S. Labor Department, including the pick to be the nation’s top wage-hour official, must be renominated in the new year, raising the likelihood of greater delays.
David Weil, the Biden administration’s choice to serve as Wage and Hour Division administrator, and Lisa Gomez, the nominee to run DOL’s employee benefits agency, were among a list of federal executive branch nominees who weren’t allowed to remain in pending status when the Senate left for its holiday recess.
That means the White House will have to nominate them again when Congress returns in January. A senior aide on the Senate labor committee confirmed that Weil and Gomez would have to be renominated, along with Elizabeth Watson, the pick to be the Labor Department’s liaison on Capitol Hill.
That raises questions about whether President Joe Biden will renominate Weil—who is deadlocked in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee—or consider a pick who may have a greater chance of an expedient confirmation.
Weil’s nomination attracted concern from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), a crucial vote in the evenly split Senate. The labor committee voted 11-11 on Weil in early August, and he’s been in a holding pattern ever since. Republicans criticized his record of wage-hour enforcement when he held the same post during the Obama administration, arguing...
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