The Senate set a modern-day record for confirming a president’s Cabinet appointments on Tuesday when it voted to confirm former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, R-Ore., as secretary of labor.

The confirmation of Chavez-DeRemer means that all federal government Cabinet departments now have a Trump appointee leading them. The only Cabinet-level official yet to be confirmed by the Senate is Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., whose confirmation to be the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has been delayed owing to the slim Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

If Stefanik is confirmed before May, then President Donald Trump will beat his 2017 record for Cabinet-level officials in his first term.

In a statement to The Daily Signal, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., highlighted what the latest confirmation means for the Senate.

“I have said from the very beginning that a president deserves to have his Cabinet in place and working on behalf of the country as soon as possible, and the Senate has been able to confirm President Trump’s nominees at a record pace,” Thune said.

“The Senate has followed an aggressive schedule, and we have stayed in session on nights and weekends, which forced Democrats to make concessions that allowed us to speed up the process,” he said, adding:

Senate Republicans and President Trump are committed to delivering on the decisive mandate we received from Americans last November, and that started by getting........

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