The Senate voted 67-32 late Monday to confirm Lori Chavez-DeRemer as Labor secretary.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee voted 14-9 on Feb. 27 to approve her nomination.
Chavez-DeRemer told the HELP Committee in early February that she'd work to help lawmakers craft legislation to provide independent contractors with more affordable health and retirement benefits if confirmed by the Senate.
While Chavez-DeRemer has not commented publicly on Labor's fiduciary rule, Judge Catharina Haynes ruled on Feb. 20 to give Labor 60 days to decide whether it will appeal two district courts' universal stays of Labor's 2024 fiduciary rule.
Labor on Feb. 12 asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to pause the consolidated appeals, which were initiated under the administration of President Joe Biden.
In late July, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas Tyler Division granted the request of the Federation of Americans for Consumer Choice and several independent insurance agents to delay the implementation of Labor's new fiduciary rule, officially called the Retirement Security Rule.
A day after, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas issued its own stay of the fiduciary rule and the prohibited transaction exemptions 2020-02 on rollovers and 84-24 on annuities, as requested by nine insurance trade groups in American Council of Life Insurers, et. al. v. U.S. Department of Labor, et. al., filed on May 21.
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Lori Chavez-DeRemer. Photo: Ike Hayman/Official House Photographer via Wikimedia Commons
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