WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Patty Murray issued the following press release:

Today-at a Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) hearing to consider Trump's nominee for Secretary of Labor-U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), a senior member and former chair of the HELP committee, grilled Trump's nominee Acting Secretary of Labor Keith Sonderling on the Department of Labor's (DOL) wasteful interagency agreements with the Department of Education (ED) and a recent proposed rule that if finalized rips away minimum wage and overtime protections from 3.7 million home care workers.

[INTERAGENCY AGREEMENTS BETWEEN DOL AND ED]

Senator Murray began by calling Sonderling out for working with Secretary Linda McMahon to senseles...