ID ); $exclude_types = array( '' ); $exclude_types = apply_filters( 'eat_exclude_types', $exclude_types ); // do nothing if the post has already a featured image set if ( $already_has_thumb ) { return; } // do the job if the post is not from an excluded type if ( ! in_array( $post_type, $exclude_types ) ) { // get first attached image $img = rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ); $attachment_id = attachment_url_to_postid( $img ); if ( $attachment_id ) { // add attachment ID add_post_meta( $post->ID, '_thumbnail_id', $attachment_id, true ); } } } // set featured image before post is displayed (for old posts) add_action( 'the_post', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); // hooks added to set the thumbnail when publishing too add_action( 'new_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'draft_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'pending_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); add_action( 'future_to_publish', 'rv_auto_featured_image_add_thumbnail' ); function rv_auto_featured_image_catch_that_image( $post ) { // Find the images in the post_content. $output = preg_match_all( '//i', $post->post_content, $matches ); $first_img = isset( $matches[1][0] ) ? $matches[1][0]:''; // if no images found, do nothing if ( empty ( $first_img ) ) { return false; } return $first_img; } } Senate Panel Advances Chavez-DeRemer’s Nomination for Labor Secretary – BCI 24 News Network
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Senate Panel Advances Chavez-DeRemer’s Nomination for Labor Secretary

27 February 2025 7:20 PM
BCI 24 News Network

A Senate panel advanced former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s (R-Ore.) nomination for labor secretary on Feb. 27, bringing her one step closer to confirmation.
The Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee voted 13–9 to recommend the former congresswoman’s confirmation to the full Senate after Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), the committee’s chairman, announced his support.
“Rep. Chavez-DeRemer is ready to work with the committee to advance a pro-worker agenda at the Department of Labor,” Cassidy said. “I’m a yes on her nomination and urge my colleagues to do the same.”
The senator noted that Chavez-DeRemer, 56, pledged to support states’ right-to-work laws—a concern he and other Republicans raised during her confirmation hearing on Feb. 19, citing her prior support for the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act of 2023….