Martha Roby: Perez Nomination Troubling
By: Blake Deshazo
Updated: March 20, 2013
WASHINGTON,
D.C. - U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R-AL) reacted to President
Obama's nomination
of Thomas Perez to Labor Secretary Monday, calling the move troubling
given the need for workforce policies that promote job growth.
As
a member of the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, which
has jurisdiction
over labor laws and many functions of the Department of Labor, Rep. Roby
said it is unwise and unproductive to install an extremist into such a
critical position.
"Mr.
Perez's history of activism is troubling, particularly his being
involved with groups
that have invited and instructed the flouting of our laws," Rep Roby
said. "The courts have already intervened to rein in the Obama
Administration's attempts to ignore the Constitution by illegally
appointing members to the National Labor Relations Board. Should
we expect the same politicization and willful abandonment of the rule of
law from Mr. Perez at the Department of Labor?
"Of
course, the President has every right to nominate whomever he wants.
However, at a time
when we need to be focused on pro-growth workforce policies, it is
unfortunate that President Obama would choose ideology over the economy,
and politics over jobs. I hope this nomination will receive a rigorous
evaluation by the Senate in its confirmation process."
