Democrats pushed the Senate toward approving more of President Obama’s nominees on Tuesday as senators cleared the way for approval of the first of five nominees for the National Labor Relations Board and pivoted to other top diplomatic and law enforcement vacancies.
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Obama's labor board nominees advance in Senate
A Senate panel has approved President Obama’s new nominees for the National Labor Relations Board, setting them up for confirmation in the full Senate as early as next week.
ObamaCare Is Destroying Our Republic
As Democrats frantically wrap the ObamaCare rocket in quick-fix duct tape to keep it from blowing up on the launch pad, the rest of us think wistfully back to 2009, when we heard all those crazy promises about convenience, affordability, and the joys of top-down central planning. What we actually got is a pile of junk, compiled by liberal think tanks, that the White House knows isn’t working. And, thanks to the complicit liberal media outlets, the public has been kept in the dark until now. They, with the White House, have known it wasn’t working for a long long time. They just didn’t want to admit it until they couldn’t hide the truth any longer.
Now that the cat is out of the bag, the liberal establishment prevailed upon President Obama to see what he could do to remedy the situation so their representatives could get reelected again. Everything with these people is about getting reelected and lying to the American people so they can retain their power. So now, President Obama has decided to void the Constitution and rewrite the Affordable Care Act on the fly. Who is doing the revisions, we really don’t know. What we do know is that the ominous provisions that would affect certain businesses and unions has been put off until after the 2014 election cycle. However, the personal provisions are still in effect.
Now isn’t that quaint? Here, we have a law passed by only Democrats that now Democrats can’t allow to take effect. Unfortunately, some of the law has already taken effect, and it is starting to make them look like the hypocrites they are. Now we have the frank admission that it’s fundamentally incompatible with representative government and the rule of law. As deadlines loom, it’s clear that ObamaCare cannot survive in the America we all inherited; so according to the Obama’s minions, America must be changed to accommodate ObamaCare.
It is all about the money. The Democrats reap the benefits of their actions in the form of contributions from large liberal donors who would like to see capitalism collapse. It is their wish to install a Socialist form of government where only they will benefit, and the working class would be forced to go along with whatever the government dictates. So this is the first taste of that form of government. Our president tried to pull a fast one by installing officers on the National Labor Relations Board illegally and then claiming he didn’t know the Congress was still in session, even though his party did the same thing when he was a Senator. Now that he got caught with his hand in the corporate cookie jar, so to speak, he has to do something to save his friends (the Union bosses) from being run out on a rail by the rank and file who will be impacted by ObamaCare.
Some critics have always maintained that ObamaCare was designed to fail, crushing what remains of the health-insurance market to pave the …read more
Presidential Nominations and Withdrawals Sent to the Senate
NOMINATIONS SENT TO THE SENATE:
Kent Yoshiho Hirozawa, of New York, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board for the term of five years expiring August 27, 2016, vice Wilma B. Liebman, term expired.
Nancy Jean Schiffer, of Maryland, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board for the term of five years expiring December 16, 2014, vice Craig Becker.
WITHDRAWALS SENT TO THE SENATE:
Sharon Block, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board for the term of five years expiring December 16, 2014, vice Craig Becker, which was sent to the Senate on February 13, 2013.
Richard F. Griffin, Jr., of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the National Labor Relations Board for the term of five years expiring August 27, 2016, vice Wilma B. Liebman, term expired, which was sent to the Senate on February 13, 2013.
Source: White House Press Office
Big business, Republicans: Obama's new labor board picks don’t fix disarray
President Obama’s two Republican picks this week for the National Labor Relations Board have a background of defending big business, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and other business groups give the nominations a big ho-hum.
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House passes GOP bill to stop Labor Board business
The House has passed a measure that would stop the National Labor Relations Board from conducting business until a dispute over the president’s recess appointments is resolved. It’s what amounts to a constitutional three-ring circus.
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Obama threatens to veto Republican bill to shut down labor board
The White House says President Obama would veto a Republican bill that would effectively shut down the National Labor Relations Board until certain conditions are met.
Boeing Stock to Get Airborne With Expansion?
By Rich Duprey, The Motley Fool
Filed under: Investing
Boeing is obviously anticipating its 787 Dreamliner getting aloft again as it is making plans to expand its South Carolina facilities with a $1 billion investment that will add another 2,000 workers.
It’s finer in Carolina
It was its plan to open a second manufacturing plant there in 2011 that riled up the machinists union in Puget Sound, Wash., because South Carolina is a right-to-work state. The union got the National Labor Relations Board to tip its hand on its biases as it opposed the move by saying Boeing was being punitive. The union had gone on strike four times in 10 years, costing the plane maker billions and the move was viewed as retaliation despite no jobs in Washington being affected.
The NLRB subsequently withdrew its complaint after the union was able to extract higher wages and unusual job security agreements in its contract negotiations with Boeing. Of course, that doesn’t mean it will ever expand in Washington again, particularly since the Carolinas offer a much more attractive, lower-cost proposition.
Boeing employs 6,700 workers at the North Charleston facility already and anticipates adding 1,000 engineers and 1,000 IT specialists by 2020. It will receive $120 million in incentives from the state for up-front expansion costs such as utilities and site preparation. South Carolina provided some $900 million in incentives last time to encourage Boeing to expand there.
Ground cover
Yet the Dreamliner fleet is still grounded, awaiting FAA approval for the technologically advanced plane to fly again after its lithium-ion batteries overheated and caught fire in January, causing regulatory overseers worldwide to order the planes grounded. While none of the problem batteries came out of its South Carolina facilities, Boeing has completed its final tests with FAA officials and now just needs their OK to taxi back onto the runway.
Customers have largely held firm with their orders, waiting to see the result of the tests. Yet rival Airbus is making headway in grabbing those who need planes without delay. It recorded orders for 431 planes in the first three months of 2013, well beyond the 193 orders Boeing notched. Of course, if Ryanair comes through with its expected 175 plane orders for Boeing, that would make the race much closer.
Egads, EADS!
Boeing’s expansion announcement came a day after Airbus broke ground on a new commercial plane assembly facility in Alabama, suggesting that it wants to compete head-to-head with its rival for defense business, too. Boeing has its missile and defense systems headquarters in that state.
Despite its woes with the 787, Boeing stock now stands 17% higher than where it began the year and more than a third higher than its 52-week lows. As it appears, it’s more a question of when the FAA will sign off on the jumbo jet taking flight again as opposed to if Boeing’s stock might just gain even greater altitude.
Hanging around the hangar
Boeing operates as a major
Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
Obama to nominate five candidates for National Labor Relations Board
President Obama is nominating five candidates for full terms on the National Labor Relations Board, which has been in limbo since a federal appeals court invalidated his recess appointments to the agency.
Obama Nominates Group of Labor Relations Board Members
Filed under: Labor, U.S. Government, Barack Obama
By SAM HANANEL
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is nominating three candidates for full terms on the National Labor Relations Board, which has been in limbo since a federal appeals court invalidated his recess appointments to the agency.
Obama on Tuesday urged the Senate to move swiftly in confirming the members — two Republicans and one Democrat — along with two other Democrats he nominated in February. That would fill all five seats on the board.
But it isn’t clear whether Republicans will go along with the package of nominees. The labor board has been a partisan lightning rod during Obama’s presidency, with Republican lawmakers and business groups furious over decisions and rules they say are aimed at helping labor unions win more members.
The move comes as House Republicans prepare to vote this week on a measure that would effectively shut down the board until it has permanent members confirmed by the Senate.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in January that Obama violated the Constitution when he bypassed the Senate to fill vacancies on the board. Since then, Republicans have claimed the board lacks any legitimacy to act.
The White House has insisted the appeals court decision is wrong and plans to appeal it to the Supreme Court. But the ruling has prompted employers in more than 100 cases to claim the board lacks authority to take action against them because two of its members aren’t there legitimately. It also has frustrated labor unions who worry the board can’t crack down on unfair labor practices.
Obama is renominating board Chairman Mark Pearce, a Democrat, and nominating two new Republicans to the board — management-side lawyers Harry I. Johnson III and Philip A. Miscimarra.
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The president had also nominated Democrats Sharon Block and Richard Griffin to full terms on the board in February. They have been sitting on the board since January 2012, when Obama made the recess appoints after Senate Republicans vowed to block Obama’s NLRB nominees. Republicans complained the board was issuing too many pro-union decisions.
The White House hopes that Senate Republicans will favor the five-member package nomination of two Republicans and three Democrats. Both Republican nominees have passed muster with GOP leadership.
“I urge the Senate to confirm them swiftly so that this bipartisan board can continue its important work on behalf of the American people,” Obama said in a statement.
The president claimed that he made the recess appointments last year while the Senate was on a break. But the appeals court panel ruled that a recess occurs only during the breaks between formal yearlong sessions of Congress, not just any informal break. It also ruled that a vacancy must come into being during a recess in order to be valid.
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Source: FULL ARTICLE at DailyFinance
The EPA: The Worst Of Many Rogue Federal Agencies
By Mark Hendrickson, Contributor
In the Age of Obama, there are many viable candidates for the official title of Washington’s “Private Sector Enemy Number One.” You could make a strong case for the National Labor Relations Board, the Department of Homeland Security, the Transportation Security Administration, and others, but my choice would be the Environmental Protection Agency. …read more
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Employers hoping for an end to labor pains after NLRB picks ruled 'unconstitutional’
Over the last year, the National Labor Relations Board has made 341 rulings, including some that have prompted critics to call it the most activist, pro-worker board ever. And now that a federal court has ruled the current board was put together with unconstitutional recess appointments by President Obama, those holdings are suddenly in question.
The Feds Want Your Retirement Accounts
Quietly, behind the scenes, the groundwork is being laid for federal government confiscation of tax-deferred retirement accounts such as IRAs. Slowly, the cat is being let out of the bag.
Last January 18th, in a little noticed interview of Richard Cordray, acting head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Bloomberg reported “[t]he U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau [CFPB] is weighing whether it should take on a role in helping Americans manage the $19.4 trillion they have put into retirement savings, a move that would be the agency’s first foray into consumer investments.” That thought generates some skepticism, as aptly expressed by the Richard Terrell cartoon published by American Thinker.
Days later On January 24th President Obama renominated Cordray as CFPB director even though his recess appointment was not due to expire until the end of 2013.
One day later, in the first significant resistance to President Obama’s concentration of presidential power, a three judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington DC unanimously said that Obama’s Recess Appointments to the National Labor Relations Board are unconstitutional. Similar litigation testing the Cordray appointment to the CFPB is in the pipeline.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) created by the 2,319 page Dodd-Frank legislation is a new and little known bureau with wide-ranging powers. Placed within the Federal Reserve, a corporation privately owned by member banks, the CFPB is insulated from oversight by either the President or Congress, its budget not subject to legislative control. It is not even clear that a new President can replace the CFPB director on taking office.
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Employers Face Uncertainty as Supreme Court Twice Declines — For Now — to Enter Fray over Legality of Obama Recess Appointments to NLRB
By Gene Connors, Contributor In January 2012, President Obama bypassed the Senate and announced three “recess appointments” to the National Labor Relations Board, a majority of the five-person Board. The president had taken similar action in March 2010, when he placed two members on the Board by recess appointment. Since those appointments, the NLRB has repeatedly reversed or watered down decades-old Board decisional law, nearly always ruling “against” employers in doing so, and has taken steps to impose a number of new regulations on employers. …read more
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Video: Anti-Union Ad During The Super Bowl
By Daniel Noe
We all know that some activities should be guaranteed privacy, like voting on whether or not to join a union. Today, union lobbyists are demanding that most employees be forced to vote in public. The Employee Rights Act guarantees that your private vote will always be protected.
Ginsberg rejects first filing after lower court rules against Obama's labor board appointments
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the first individual filing related to a recent lower court decision that invalidated President Obama’s three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board.
Supreme Court rejects bid to nix labor board ruling after decision on Obama appointments
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected the first individual filing related to a recent lower court decision that invalidated President Obama’s three recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board. The filing had sought to have the board’s rulings invalidated as well.
GOP senator proposes bill that would freeze NLRB rules, decisions
Republican Sen. John Barrasso introduced legislation Wednesday that would freeze or overturn virtually every decision the National Labor Relations Board has made in the past year.
Video: Gohmert Discusses Obama’s Misuse Of Presidential Powers
By Daniel Noe
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) talked with Sean Hannity and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) about the Obama Administration’s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board that have been ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington.
Can The President End-Run The NLRB Recess-Appointments Ruling?
By Daniel Fisher, Forbes Staff he recent decision nullifying President Obama‘s recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board could invalidate some 200 decisions the board made while it was under the control of the president’s three appointees. It could also wipe out decisions made by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau under its recess-appointment chief, Richard Cordray.
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