{"id":577717,"date":"2023-06-07T23:54:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T20:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/murkowski-emerges-as-senator-to-watch-in-labor-nomination-fight\/"},"modified":"2023-06-07T23:54:36","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T20:54:36","slug":"murkowski-emerges-as-senator-to-watch-in-labor-nomination-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/murkowski-emerges-as-senator-to-watch-in-labor-nomination-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"#Murkowski emerges as senator to watch in Labor nomination fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/Murkowski_SuMariam-Zuhaib_Alex-Brandon_AP-1.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The White House and Senate Democrats are refocusing their efforts on Julie Su\u2019s nomination to become Labor secretary and are pushing for Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) to break party lines and support her as they struggle to win over a group of Democratic moderates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For months, Su and Democrats have been unable to win over the requisite support from a trio of senators \u2014 Sens. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), Jon Tester (D-Mont.) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) \u2014\u00a0 leaving her nomination in limbo and forcing them to look elsewhere to get her over the finish line.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>According to one Senate Republican, Democrats are attempting to woo Murkowski to back the Labor nominee amid continued uncertainty on their side.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Republican told The Hill that she has had discussions with \u201cpeople on both sides of her nomination\u201d and indicated she is undecided on Su. She added that she has been in touch with the administration recently to discuss Labor-related issues, headlined by the H2B visa program for seafood processors in her home state.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t even know if Su is coming up,\u201d Murkowski said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of been kind of silent here for a while. \u2026 I\u2019m not sure they\u2019ve got all the Democrats.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat, declined to say whether the party is trying to win over the Alaska centrist.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t tell you that,\u201d Durbin said. \u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, top Democrats maintain they still believe there\u2019s an avenue to usher Su through to win the needed number of votes. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) told reporters on Wednesday that Democrats are \u201cworking very, very hard\u201d to get her confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The troubles surrounding her nomination burst into view last week when Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.)\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/seungminkim\/status\/1663983960127356952\/photo\/1\">complained<\/a>\u00a0about the administration\u2019s inclusion of the Mountain Valley Pipeline in the debt ceiling deal, saying that he didn\u2019t get a heads up despite the White House\u2019s repeated calls for his help in cajoling moderate Democrats to support Su.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m hopeful,\u201d Sen. Debbie Stabenow (Mich.), the No. 3 Senate Democrat, told The Hill. \u201cI can\u2019t say that I know for sure but I think she\u2019s terrific and I hope so. It would be a real loss. \u2026 I would say it\u2019s close right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, the struggle to win over the Democratic moderates and Sinema is evident. Manchin told\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/burgessev\/status\/1666203708059705349\">Politico<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday that has no firm timeline to make a decision. Sinema has a policy of not previewing her votes and a spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>As for Tester, he told The Hill that he is continuing to weigh a decision and added that\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mkraju\/status\/1666516837025062926?s=42&amp;t=TXz3rAN_cw8WOp9rDFLXSA\">if Su lacks the votes<\/a>, the White House should yank her nomination.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still looking. Still taking input,\u201d Tester said before wondering if a vote will ever take place. \u201cAre we ever going to vote on her? \u2026 I don\u2019t know. I have no idea. I have not been playing in that sandbox at all. I\u2019m just taking input from Montanans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House launched into high gear this week with their lobbying efforts for Su, but haven\u2019t confirmed which senators they are specifically talking to.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Chief of staff Jeff Zients and director of legislative affairs Louisa Terrell have been leading the charge out of the White House and speaking regularly with Schumer, as well as other senators \u201cmultiple times a week,\u201d according to a White House official.<\/p>\n<p>Zients has also been speaking regularly to Su and is in touch with outside groups and stakeholders about her nomination. Additionally, Terrell has been working closely with Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) to push support for Su.<\/p>\n<p>Su attended a Cabinet meeting on Wednesday as acting secretary and ahead of it, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre stressed that Biden has \u201cconfidence that she will get through.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to do everything that we can to make sure that she actually becomes secretary,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Su would be the first Asian American member of Biden\u2019s Cabinet at the secretary level, if confirmed. The administration is the first in more than 20 years not to have an Asian American Cabinet secretary.<\/p>\n<p>Biden nominated Su in February to replace former Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, who is the first Cabinet secretary in the line of succession to leave his post since the start of the administration. Su was confirmed as deputy Labor secretary in July 2021 with no GOP votes.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In their opposition, Republicans have pointed to her stance on independent contractors and the gig economy and her handling of California\u2019s unemployment insurance program when the state paid out billions in fraudulent claims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s going to be tough and I\u2019ve talked of the moderate Dems. I can\u2019t believe we can\u2019t get a couple of Republicans,\u201d Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, told The Hill. \u201cThere is no one like Julie Su I\u2019ve met anywhere in the bureaucracy that understands <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>renticeships and how skills training can occur, how we can do it at scale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe she tweeted sometime and it wasn\u2019t the perfect tweet. Alright! Maybe it\u2019s the age of partisanship where you don\u2019t want to be approving an appointee of this president at this moment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Hickenlooper added that he has not discussed Su\u2019s nomination with Murkowski in roughly a month, but intends to do so in the near future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s on my list,\u201d Hickenlooper added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Outside groups, particularly the AFL-CIO, also stepped up their efforts to help Su recently and have been pushing Democrats to get her nomination across the line.<\/p>\n<p>AFL-CIO sent a letter to Democratic senators on Wednesday that included other union presidents, all voicing their unanimous support for Su. When Biden first announced her nomination, the AFL-CIO launched a six-figure digital ad buy to back Su and the ad has been playing in the Washington, D.C., area and in Sinema\u2019s home state of Arizona.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Also this week, AFL-CIO representatives have been calling Democratic senators to persuade them to vote for Su.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally,\u00a0diverse groups around Capitol Hill have also been pushing for Su.<\/p>\n<p>The chairs of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus, the Congressional Black Caucus, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, and Democratic Women\u2019s Caucus sent a letter on Wednesday with six Senators and 61 Members of Congress, urging Senate leadership to get her confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. All rights reserved. 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