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Michael A. Fletcher at the Washington Post reports that a Senate committee confirmation vote on Obama Labor Secretary-appointee Hilda Solis has been postponed because her husband just yesterday paid a longstanding tax lien against his business.

Of course, this comes on the heels of reports that she failed to disclose that she served as Treasurer of a pro-labor lobbying group at the same time she supposedly did the people’s business as a United States Representative for everybody who lives California’s 32nd Congressional District.

A Senate committee today abruptly canceled a session to consider President Obama’s nomination of Rep. Hilda Solis to be labor secretary in the wake of a report saying that her husband yesterday paid about $6,400 to settle tax liens against his business — including liens that had been outstanding for as long as 16 years.

The report, by USA Today, came just before the Senate’s Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee was slated to meet to consider Solis’s nomination, which had been delayed by questions over her role on the board of the pro-labor organization American Rights at Work. A source said that committee members did not learn about the tax issue until today.

Does anybody in this Administration pay taxes? And just how many jobs could have been created in this troubled economy had the Obama Transition Team actually hired a few vetters?