Elizabeth Warren takes aim at Labor nominee Andrew Puzder
By 8:04 AM WASHINGTON — The week after her high-profile showdown over President Trump's pick for attorney general, Elizabeth Warren is gearing up for another round — this time with her sights trained on fast food chief executive Andrew Puzder, the president's nominee to head the Department of Labor. Warren this morning fired off a 28-page letter with 83 questions for Puzder, the chief executive of CKE Restaurants, which runs fast food chains Hardee's and Carl's Jr., ahead of his Feb. 16 confirmation hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. But there's little chance his answers will sway Warren, who sits on that panel. "My staff's review of your 16-year tenure . . . reveals that you've made your fortune by squeezing the very workers you'd be charged with protecting as Labor Secretary out of wages and benefits," Warren writes in the opening paragraphs of the letter.Read full article from Elizabeth Warren takes aim at Labor nominee Andrew Puzder
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