Posted on 09/15/2011 10:12:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In response to a series of controversial decisions by the National Labor Relations Board, the House of Representatives will vote on a bill curtailing the power of the NLRB Thursday afternoon.
The Protecting Jobs From Government Interference Act, H.R. 2587 is currently being voted on and is expected to pass the Republican-controlled House. An earlier vote on the bill on the floor passed 239-176, with all Republicans and six Democrats voting in favor.
The bill would prohibit the National Labor Relations Board from ordering any employer to close, relocate, or transfer employment under any circumstance.
The NLRB has been the target of Republican ire since the board filed a complaint against Boeing in April for opening a plant in South Carolina, a right-to-work state. The NLRB said Boeing was punishing workers in Washington state with the decision.
Since then, the NLRB has handed down a spate of pro-union rules that have infuriated labor critics and Republican lawmakers.
Republican legislators say the board shouldn’t have power to dictate where private businesses locate. Union advocates claim the bill would strip the board’s ability to enforce labor laws.
The bill was sponsored by Republican Rep. Tim Scott of South Carolina and introduced in July. Scott has also introduced a bill rolling back several other rules recently passed by the NLRB.
“If it does get vetoed, what steps can the house take to over ride the veto?”
The Senate, not the House, has to overide with a supermajority. It won’t happen. This is just posturing. (Needed posturing, but posturing none-the-less.)
Harry Reid will ditch it in File 13. It will never see Obama’s desk.
They pulled out all the stops against Sharon Angle for a reason.
More importantly, will the Senate pass it? Doubt it.
yes, keep passing the bills and let the democrats vote them down or zero veto them. Then they will have to answer for that.
Before you worry about a veto, get it passed in the Senate ... it won’t, and there is your answer to a veto override: too many RATs in the Senate for that to happen in this administration’s reign.
It’ll never get to his desk. It’s DOA at Harry’s do-nothing Senate.
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