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congress.blogs.foxnews.com - 5/9/2009
“Card Check” deal is a “fool’s errand”
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You might think that statement would come from a Republican, but it’s actually from a Democrat. Reports that there might be a deal near on the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), or “card check,” as critics and now some proponents call it, appear to be vastly overwritten. Sen ...
Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act
campaignsilo.firedoglake.com - 5/9/2009
Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage of Employee Free Choice Act
— campaignsilo.firedoglake.com — photo by djwhelan New compromise measures from Diane Feinstein and Arlen Specter may pave the way for... the passage of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). With 900,000 union members in the state of Pennsylvania, the Arlen Specter firewall ... (more) Feinstein, Specter Compromises Pave the Way for Passage ...

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michellemalkin.com - 5/15/2009
Specter, card check, and the final betrayal
— michellemalkin.com — Back on March 24, Arlen Specter announced his opposition to Big Labor’s card-check legislation, the “Employee Free... Choice Act.” [...] Read the rest » (more) Specter, card check, and the final betrayal

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briefingroom.thehill.com - 5/4/2009
Harkin signals EFCA compromise without 'card check'
— briefingroom.thehill.com — The controversial "card check" provision in the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) may be dropped in a... compromise, one of the bill's Democratic sponsors in the Senate said Monday. "Compromises are going to be made," Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) told ... (more) Harkin signals EFCA compromise without 'card check'

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DownWithTyranny!:  Will Specter Figure Out That Democrats SUPPORT Working Families, Not Undermine Them The Way His Old Party Does?

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Will Specter Figure Out That Democrats SUPPORT Working Families, Not Undermine Them The Way His Old Party Does?
DownWithTyranny! — ... That may solve the problem of saving Specter's face (and possibly even his seat) but it puts WalMart's senator, Blanche Lincoln, in a real pickle. And another paid-off shill for Big Business, Ben Nelson (NE) went running to Fox to tell them the compromise is a fool's errand. "You  might think," their report begins, "that statement would come from a Republican, but it’s actually from a Democrat." Well, kinda/sorta. Nelson, who fundamentally opposes assisting working families has taken so much in legalized bribes from the anti-Employee Free Choice forces that he would be ...

Feinstein and Specter Compromises may help get the Employee Free Choice Act passed
Crooks and Liars — ... It looks like Arlen Specter is coming to terms with the cold reality that he can't be a "Democrat" and stand in opposition to working families. As usual, the Republican-like Ben Nelson does as much damage as he can to good progressive legislation like EFCA. ...

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