Examiner Editorial: Questions senators should ask Thomas Perez

Members of the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee will hold the first hearing on President Obama’s nomination of Thomas Perez to be secretary of labor on Thursday. The lawmakers should take the opportunity to ask Perez some pointed questions. We suggest a few below:

1) Do you agree with the president’s efforts to roll back the previous administration’s changes to the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act that required union officers to disclose potential conflicts of interest and report payments from union trusts? If so, how do you think it serves the interests of either union members or transparency and fraud prevention to require less disclosure?