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OPA News Release: [12/21/2006]
Contact Name: David James
Phone Number: (202) 693-4676
Release Number: 06-2120-NAT
Deputy Secretary of Labor Steven Law to Leave Post in January
WASHINGTON — U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao today announced that Deputy Secretary of Labor Steven Law will be leaving his post in January. Law has spent nearly six years with the administration, three of which have been as deputy secretary. During this time, the Department of Labor became the first Cabinet agency to win all "green" scores from the Office of Management and Budget on the President's Management Agenda. The department also achieved landmark changes in white-collar overtime rules, union transparency requirements and pension security laws.
"Steven Law is a uniquely talented and skillful manager and leader who has played a significant role in helping to lead the U.S. Department of Labor," said Secretary Chao. "We were lucky to have had him at the department for as long as we did. Steven is viewed with great affection and respect by his colleagues who, I know, share my sentiments. We all wish him, his wife Elizabeth, daughter Charlotte, and son John James, the very best in this new chapter of their family's life."
"It has been an incredibly fruitful six years, from being recognized as the best-managed department in the executive branch to advancing the President's agenda on immigration reform, trade and retirement security," said Law. "I'll always be grateful for the privilege of serving my country under President Bush's leadership, and being part of Secretary Chao's top-notch team of appointees and career professionals.
"The greatest economic challenge our country faces is staying competitive in a globalized economy," added Law. "This impacts everything from our trade policy and job training to immigration reform and worldwide labor standards. I look forward to remaining engaged in these issues in the future as well." Law said that he would finalize and announce his plans after his departure in mid-January.
Law has been involved in the administration's efforts on comprehensive immigration reform, and has helped promote the administration's trade agenda by representing the Department on the Labor Advisory Committee for Trade Negotiations, the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China, the Committee for the Implementation of Textile Agreements, and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
In addition, Law is a member of the President's Management Council and the chairman of its E-Government Committee — a council of deputy secretaries, senior agency leaders and CIOs that oversees progress on the President's E-Government initiative. Law played a lead role in the Department of Labor's implementation of revised OMB Circular A-123, establishing and chairing a new senior-level Internal Controls Board to review the department's internal controls verification procedures.
Prior to his appointment as deputy secretary in December 2003, and his three-year tenure as chief of staff to Secretary Chao, Law was executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC). For six years prior to that, Law served as chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY).
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