[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 125 (Thursday, July 20, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3438-S3439]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]



                              Nominations

  Mr. President, on another matter, for more than 2 years now, the 
Biden administration has sent the Senate a steady stream of radical and 
unqualified nominees. That much is hardly news. But today, the 
President's pick to serve as Secretary of Labor made an especially 
ignominious bit of history. Julie Su has now waited longer for 
confirmation by the Senate of the same party as the President than any 
previous Cabinet nominee on record.
  Her nomination has spent 4\1/2\ months in limbo while Senate 
Democrats decide whether they can even muster a party line confirmation 
vote.
  ``We're still taking input.'' That has become sort of our colleagues' 
go-to line as they decide whether to hold their noses and vote this 
scandal-plagued, leftwing activist into the job. Well, I would suggest 
to our colleagues that there is not much that Ms. Su's radical record 
has left to the imagination.
  This is a nominee who managed to botch her previous job so royally 
that

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the biggest newspaper in her home State, The Los Angeles Times, called 
one department's performance on her watch an ``epic failure.'' That was 
the L.A. Times describing the performance of this California department 
head.
  As head of California's labor authority, Ms. Su was responsible for 
tens of billions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment insurance 
payments--tens of billions of dollars in fraud. Why on Earth would the 
Biden administration think that sort of performance deserves an encore?
  Well, maybe because Ms. Su has a penchant for doing the bidding of 
favorite liberal activists and Big Labor allies. On the job in 
California, Ms. Su reportedly instructed employees on how to hide 
illegal immigrants from Customs authorities working to enforce the law. 
Here in Washington, she has worked overtime to give unions access to 
more of the workers' paychecks and veto power over vast-evolving 
industries where independent contractors and gig workers thrive.
  So American taxpayers have seen enough--enough--of Julie Su. When 
will Senate Democrats finally decide they have as well?