confirm and then they become the secretary and there is transparency and accountability. not just to the president but to the american people. and part of the reason that the president, i think, seems to like when he said he likes it he s running it like a corporation to fire at will a lot more easily than when you ve had somebody who has only been there six months who is an acting. it is very different. and we don t know exactly what will happen next with that position. but the deputy secretary of labor who might become the acting secretary of labor a guy named pat pazella and there are questions about the new acting secretary of labor was a lobbyist for sweat shops in a previous life. here from his confirmation hearing, here is al franken in 2017 asking him about this. the key issues you lobbied on was to block bipartisan legislation for basic worker protections in the northern marianna islands where garment manufacturers could produce clothing labelled made in the usa without
a person that i ve gone to know. there hasn t been an ounce of controversy at the department of labor until this came up. and he s doing this not for himself. he is doing this for the administration. and, alex, i think you ll agree. i said you don t have to do this. he doesn t have to do this. (inaudible). i do. and we have, as everybody knows, we have pat pazella, who is a deputy. he will be acting for a period of time. i think you know pat. he s a good man, highly recommended by alex. but pat is going to be acting. and we have already informed him. (inaudible). yes. i did have a falling out a long time ago. the reason doesn t make any difference, frankly. but i haven t spoken to him in
acosta press conference would calm the waters. today s world treats victims very, very differently. reporter: sources say president trump went from praising acosta to questioning why the victims were never notified about the plea deal. yet today he insisted otherwise. i thought alex did a great job. reporter: for trump, acosta resignation comes as a relief amid renewed scrutiny over his own relationship with epstein. today he said it wasn t a distraction. well, alex believed that. reporter: the departure leaves the president with another acting secretary in his cabinet. we have, as everybody knows, we have pat pazella who is a deputy and he ll be acting for a period of time. reporter: the acting labor secretary will be in good company because the department of defense and department of homeland security and mult pull other federal agencies are all run by acting heads. while experts say permanent
nominees. let me give you one more example of the comparison historically. in the first entire term of the george h.w. bush administration, his entire four years, he faced one cloture vote. in the entire four years of the clinton administration, he faced ten cloture votes. under the george w. bush administration, the entire first term he faced four cloture votes. barack obama faced 17 in his first entire four years. we have faced 79 in our first 14 months. that adds up to 32 combined in the entire first four years of those administrations relative to 79 in our first less than year and a half. pat pazella we re listening to marc short. we re really awawaiting to see