[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Earlier Wednesday, the Senate rejected on a 55-43 vote a Republican amendment that would have required top labor union officials to certify the accuracy of unions' financial statements in the same way the government is now requiring chief executives of big corporations to do.

As long as the left is protected by the press, the American people can't be whipped into a frenzy over, in the case of the Unions, the true corruption and influence over US policy....add the lawyers, the NGOs...

Any Republican who chose to vote against holding Unions accountable is clueless or corrupt...the left is too far gone to legitimize with a word.

[Orion]

Please explain how union financial fraud is causing their rank-and-file to suffer financially. When ENE, WCOM, IBM, and the impending avalanche of companies who are running corrupt financial accounting commit fraud, they are ripping-off their shareholders.

Unions don't have shareholders - they have members, and they don't "invest" based upon financial reports. Please show the examples of comparable fraud.

This is nothing more than partisan "...oh yeah? So are you!!..."

[135steward]

The LMRDA already holds Unions financially accountable, and government intervention has occured in Teamsters, LIUNA and HERE. Bush proposed "self-accountability" for corporations. I smell double standard, guys, and it ain't just hygeine.