Senate Approves Perez as 26th Secretary of Labor

On July 18th, the U.S. Senate approved the nomination of Thomas E. Perez to be the nation's 26th Secretary of Labor.   Mr. Perez has spent his entire career in public service, and will join the department on July 23 after an impressive tenure as the assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice.   He previously served as the secretary of Maryland's Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation.