Lori Chavez-DeRemer, a former Republican representative from Oregon, was sworn in as the 30th U.S. Secretary of Labor on March 12, after being confirmed by the U.S. Senate a day earlier.
Chavez-DeRemer’s Senate confirmation received bipartisan support, passing with a 67-32 vote. Seventeen Democrats and 50 Republicans voted in favor of Chavez-DeRemer. Notably, Republicans voting Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, Rand Paul of Kentucky, and Ted Budd of North Carolina voted against the confirmation.
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