If confirmed as Labor secretary, Chavez-DeRemer would oversee efforts to develop and enforce regulations that affect employers' self-funded retirement plans and self-insured health plans.

She previously represented Oregon in the House as a Republican. She is the daughter of a longtime union member and the wife of an anesthesiologist.

Members of the Senate voted 66-30 last week to let her nomination come to the Senate floor without facing a filibuster.

Fifteen Democrats voted for letting the nomination come to the floor, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., was the only Republican who voted against letting the nomination come to the floor.

In related news, the Senate Finance Committee has scheduled a hearing on the nomination of Dr. Mehmet Oz to be administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at 10 a.m. March 14.

CMS, an arm of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, oversees Medicare, Medicaid and Affordable Care Act programs.

Oz is a cardiothoracic surgeon who was a professor at Columbia University's medical school. He also hosted television talk shows.

The Senate has already confirmed Trump's HHS secretary nominee, Robert J. Kennedy Jr., by a 52-48 vote.

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An arm of the Labor Department, the Employee Benefits Security Administration, works directly on benefit plan issues.

At press time, the Senate had not scheduled hearings on the nomination of Daniel Aronowitz, a fiduciary law expert and fiduciary liability insurance advisor, to be the assistant labor secretary in charge of EBSA.