P.M. BRIEFING : Senate Panel Endorses Martin
WASHINGTON — A Senate committee today unanimously endorsed Lynn Martin’s nomination as labor secretary, clearing the way for a Senate floor vote on her confirmation, possibly as early as Thursday.
Martin, who won bipartisan support from the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee at a confirmation hearing last week, was approved by the panel on a 17-0 vote.
President Bush selected Martin, who spent 10 years in the House as a Republican congresswoman from Illinois, for the post last fall after she lost a bid to unseat Sen. Paul Simon. If confirmed, Martin would be the only woman heading a Cabinet agency, as was the case with Elizabeth Dole, who stepped down to run the American Red Cross.
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