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A Senate committee hearing moved forward Thursday on Boston Mayor Marty Walsh to serve as President Joe Biden Secretary of Labor.Watch the hearing in the player above.If the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approves the Walsh nomination, the full Senate will make a final vote in the coming days.As mayor of Boston, Walsh told the committee we ;ve proven that we can create a world-class economy that works for working people.Throughout my career, I ;ve led by listening, collaborating and building partnerships. That how, if confirmed, I will lead the Department of Labor, Walsh adde stanley cup d.Washington Sen. Patty Murray, who leads the committee, said she hopes to bring Walsh nomination to a vote by the committee and full Senate quickly.READ MORE: Meet Joe Bidens Cabinet picksI hope we ;ll be able to confirm you quickly because we do not have a minute to delay. We lost 140,000 jobs in the last month, Murray said.Walsh a former union worker stanley cup , 53, has served as the Democratic mayor of Boston since 2014.When he took the oath of office for his second term as Boston chief executive in stanley cup 2018, Biden presided over the inauguration.Before that, Walsh served as a state representative for more than a decade.Walsh has a long history with labor, he served as president of Laborers Local 223 and, before becoming mayor, headed up the Boston Building Trades 鈥?a union umbrella organization. Gthx U.S. says Russia was given Trump campaign polling data in 2016
MIAMI 鈥?The man suspected of sending pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and other opponents of President Donald Trump kept a list of elected officials and o adidas samba thers who investigators believe were intended targets, an official told The Associated Press on Monday.The disclosure came as 56-year-old Cesar Sayoc made his initial court appearance in Miami federal court Monday, saying little but tearing up, and after bomb squads were called to a post office in Atlanta about a suspicious mailin stanley cup g to CNN similar to the pipe bomb packages recovered in the case last week.The official said authorities had recovered soldering equipment, a printer, and stamps similar to those used on the package bombs in the investigation into Sayoc, who was arrested last week in Florida. Authorities believe Sayoc was putting explosives together in his van.The official wasn ;t authorized to discuss the ongoing investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity to the AP. The official also said that, as part of the investigation, authorities were scrutinizing Sayoc social media posts.The FBI said via its Twitter account that the recovered package in Atlanta was 8220 imilar in appearance to the bubble-wrapped manila envelopes authorities say were sent by Sayoc to intended targets from Delaware to California, including former President Barack Obama, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former Vi stanley cup ce President Joe Biden.The FBI has confirmed a package has been recovered in Atlanta, sim |
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