Labor Secretary Hilda Solis said Wednesday she is resigning from the administration, a decision that comes on a week when President Barack Obama is moving to fill out his second-term Cabinet.
Solis told Labor Department staff in a letter that leaving is “one of the most difficult decisions I have ever made, because I have taken our mission to heart.”
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“As the daughter of parents who worked in factories, paid their union dues and achieved their goal of a middle class life, and as the first Latina to head a major federal agency, it has been an incredible honor to serve,” she added.
Solis’s departure comes after several other members of Obama’s Cabinet, including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, have said they will leave. The decisions by Clinton and Solis leave only two women in the Cabinet: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
