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Rep. Hilda Solis is the new U.S. Secretary of Labor, so there will be an election out east to replace her. The vote was 80-17 after Republican leadership in the Senate agreed to drop its insistence that the nomination clear a 60-vote procedural motion. NYT/The Caucus
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