Senate Committee to Vote on Secretary of Labor Nominee Thomas Perez May 16th, 2013 (UPDATED)

For a second time, the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) has postponed a vote on Secretary of Labor Nominee, Thomas Perez. The vote will be held on Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 9:15 AM. The vote had been scheduled for Wednesday, May 8, 2013, following an April 22, 2013 Committee Republican Letter to HELP Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) requesting that the mark-up of Mr. Perez, first scheduled for April 24, be postponed due to “the number of requests for information that remain outstanding….”