President Bush has appointed Eugene Scalia to be Labor Department Solicitor, one of the top jobs in the DOL front office, with clout over policy and standards-setting, as well as the responsibility for defending regulatory actions in court.
Scalia comes in through the back door, via a "recess appointment," because Senate Democrats opposed his nomination. Scalia, son of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, was a major opponent of the Clinton administration's failed ergo rule, calling the underlying science "quackery" and "junk science" in one paper.