Breaking: House Passes Pro-Jobs Bill to Rein in the NLRB (Update: Now It Has Really Passed. Seriously.)
The US House has passed HR 2587, the Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act. The vote was 239 to 176 — six Democrats crossed party lines to vote for the bill. Most House Democrats are therefore on the record as siding with the National Labor Relations Board’s unprecedented and outrageous case against Boeing.
Update: This was actually a vote on the motion to reconsider the bill, not the bill itself. The debate on the bill is taking place this afternoon.
Update: Now it has really passed, with 8 Democratic votes.
The problem is: It will never fly past the senate – Wayy too many Democratic party members wayyyy too far in the unions pockets to ever let it fly
Do not be too sure. Lots of Dems very scared right about now. It won’t pass the Senate, because Reid will not allow it to see a vote. Several House bills have met this fate already.
It is not enough to understand the politics. One must also understand some of the parliamentary procedures. Much will change when the Dems no longer control the Senate.
What the Republicans should do is convince Landrieu and Nelson and a couple other Conservative Dems to switch Parties. No need to wait for elections. Then they could pass legislation and force Obama to veto. I do not think they would face filibusters at this point. The Dems would be looking to let Obama take the hit, not themselves.
A few years back, Boeing moved their corporate HQ from Seattle to Chicago. Didn’t seem to buy them much, did it?
So they’re voting on whether or not to vote? Wow, I wonder why it takes government sooo long to get anything done?
“Pass this bill. You should pass this bill. Pass this bill right away.”
/somebody, recently. I forget just who.
Excuse me, but the NLRB is an investigative agency created by Congress to enforce the labor laws of the United States. It investigates and makes initial rulings on employee and employer complaints. It’s rulings are subject to court review. Since when did it become a wise practice for the Congress to interfere with an independent investigation and adjudicative process? The Congress can’t abolish the NLRB anymore than it can repeal the Wagner, Taft-Hartley or Landrum Acts, because it doesn’t have the votes. So instead they grand stand and make a mockery of the administrative law process (when they can’t pack the commissions, agencies or the courts). Under Bush, rather than risk an adverse ruling, even when he could appoint 2 of the 3 members, he simply chose to not appoint a third member so there wouldn’t be a quorum.
“It’s rulings are subject to court review. Since when did it become a wise practice for the Congress to interfere with an independent investigation and adjudicative process?”
It appears you are unaware that ridiculous rulings can be within the law–that is when Congress should intervene.
The notion it is illegal under the nation’s labor laws to open a plant in right to work state is ridiculous. It should be vitiated before it even wastes a court’s time.