tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/27/2009
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One of the issues we'll be following in the new administration is the EFCA or, as it's more commonly known, "card check." The bill would make it much easier for unions to organize and already its defeat is the rallying cry for business groups inside the Beltway who agree on little else. I argue ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 2/3/2009
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corner.nationalreview.com —
While everyone is looking at Tom Daschle's tax
problems (I am too, working on a story for...
tomorrow morning), a new issue has arisen concerning another Obama cabinet nomination, that of Rep. Hilda Solis to be Secretary of Labor. Solis had a rough ...
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Daschle -- And Solis, Too
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Progressive Breakfast: Conservatives Delay and Distort While Jobs Vanish
LiberalOasis : The Blog —
... TPM's Matt Cooper sizes up the EFCA landscape: "Thus far, EFCA opponents have won the battle for elite opinion ... I suspect few folks really know about it but in general the public is in a pro-union mood ... Labor officials now believe that the bill will come up in the Spring, perhaps May or June, and that the administration and the president will indeed fight for it. While the White House has been somewhat chastened by the vigorous campaign against the bill, with some officials privately fearing that it could be their 'gays in the military,' the president, labor leaders ...
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online.wsj.com 1/2/2009 — Responsibility has a way of focusing the mind. Take Mark Pryor, Democratic senator from Arkansas. In 2007, Mr. Pryor voted to move card check, Big Labor's No. 1 priority. And why not? Mr. Pryor knew the GOP would block the bill, which gets rid of ...
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