CQ TODAY MIDDAY UPDATE
Oct. 6, 2009 – 1:48 p.m.
Thomas E. Perez, whose nomination to the nation’s top civil rights post was held up for more than six months by Republican opposition, won Senate confirmation Tuesday.
The Senate voted 72-22 to confirm Perez to be the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department. President Obama nominated him in March.
Perez was a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division during the Clinton administration and special counsel to the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy , D-Mass.
Since 2007, Perez has served as Maryland’s secretary of labor, overseeing state programs on labor, workforce development and professional licensing.
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