Jeff Duncan: “very soon the other body will vote to confirm Alexis Herman as Secretary of Labor. I am sure that the Senators will vote…”

“very soon the other body will vote to confirm Alexis Herman as Secretary of Labor. I am sure that the Senators will vote almost unanimously for her because no one has been asking the tough questions that need to be asked about this nomination, yet the liberal magazine, The New Republic, has a scorching article about Ms. Herman in its current issue. The New Republic would ordinarily be one of the strongest supporters for someone like Ms. Herman, but listen to what The New Republic has to say about her. ``It would not be quite accurate to say that Herman's political career has been tainted by cronyism. Her political career is cronyism. For Herman, it seems government has meant little more than a way to enrich herself and her friends.'' The President should reconsider this nomination in light of all of the reports in The New Republic, The Washington Times, and other publications concerning questionable financial dealings. It appears that Ms. Herman has spent her career doing political wheeling and dealing at great expense to the American taxpayer. Let me mention just two examples. Ms. Herman was paid $600,000 simply for advising on hiring minority firms for construction of the Federal Triangle project in Washington, DC. Six hundred thousand dollars is an unbelievably exorbitant fee for this type of work. Then the project was criticized for its very poor job in hiring minority firms, the very thing for which Ms. Herman was being paid.”