"Senate Republicans to oppose some nominees for hobbled labor board"

Senate Republicans to oppose some nominees for hobbled labor board

By Associated Press (Washington Post)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/senate-panel-considers-bipartisan-slate-of-5-nominees-for-politically-fractured-labor-board/2013/05/16/88a20fbe-be00-11e2-b537-ab47f0325f7c_story.html

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WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans said Thursday they would not support five nominees to the National Labor Relations Board, raising the possibility the troubled agency could be rendered mostly inoperable later this year.

The board has already been working under a cloud since January, when a federal appeals court said the president violated the Constitution by filling vacancies on the board through recess appointments without Senate confirmation.

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Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., accused Republicans of a demonstrating a pattern of delaying or blocking confirmation of appointments to the Environmental Protection Agency, Labor Department and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

“This is about complete obstructionism because the minority senators don’t like the agencies, and they don’t like the work these agencies do,” Warren said.


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